No offense and not trying to start a flame war... but I didn't receive any feedback on this and I want to make sure that someone else tries something similar to make sure this isn't a show stopping bug... Upgrading is one thing, but a fresh install is kinda necesary to really test things out. If I'm just a looney at least tell me so. =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:01 AM Subject: [Cooker] Fresh Sunsite hd.img Install Fails > Just booted to windows after spending a few minutes trying to play around > with grub but it's too late to do much more. I'll go back and get more > information if other people can reproduce something similar, if they can't I > guess it's just something I did. > > -Rsync from Sunsite > -floppy install from hd.img > -Expert -> Install > -Formatted my root and /usr partitions to get a totally fresh install > -Small note: error installing guile-devel packages (i need to make sure i > have these for sure) > -mkbootdsk fails > -install of lilo with text menu fails with empty error: "", grub installs > fine > -rebooted... Kernel Panic no Init Found try appending initrd= (not exact > wording probably) > -used command prompt in grub and got kernel to boot.. panics again with > "cannot mount root file system "" try appending root=" > > Once again, it's late so I don't have all the details from the error log but > if this is reproduceable I'll get more information tomorrow when I have more > time. > > -Tim > >
