On 12/30/01 at 4:23 PM, David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up Linux 2.4.16 with the Linux Progress > Patch (LPP) on my desktop before I try it on a floppy...
> Now when the system boots, I get the nice boot screen > (from LPP) and all works until init starts - which messes > up the nice boot screen. Few lines more and the screen > clears and starts giving messages in blue. In short > order, it is obvious that the entire filesystem - ALL > mount points - are mounted read-only (!). > > Anyone know what is going on? I think I figured out what it was, though I can't say why everything was read-only. I'd forgotten to say that I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and that there was a message that it could not open the console as there was no such device.... It appears that, since I've enabled framebuffer support, that enabled Mandrake's cute boot-time startup to run (Aurora), and this did not expect to be running on /dev/tty2 (the console) and this caused problems. Once I took this out, the boot-time messages scrolled by on the bottom line, init still corrupted the screen, but the system booted - and aurora took over after the kernel was done booting up. > Second question: I STILL can't get 2.4.16 under 500k in > size - I can't even get it under 600k - even compressed. > Even though I strip practically everything out. Why is > that? Do I really have to give up over 100k of floppy > space to the Linux kernel? Well? :) Perhaps I'll just create a system with syslinux, configurations, Linux 2.4, and root.gz on it - and use packages from a second disk (the 2.0 unpatched devel disk...) -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
