Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:31:10 -0700
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Installing SuSE 9.1 On Libretto L100 - MORE INFO
Hi John,
One problem I did find with installing Linux on a desktop in this way was that
the Linux kernel installed tended to be one optimised for the desktop processor
(be it an Athlon, PIII, PIV, etc.), and when you put the hard drive back into
the Libretto, it panics because the extended instruction set isn't available
anymore. Your desktop machine, being a dual PIII with SCSI and the like,
certainly woudln't have reduced the Suse installer's confusion factor!
If you don't want to re-install, you might want to try and install a kernel that
only as Pentium (or Pentium MMX) optimisations in it (IIRC I got away with
installing Red Hat 6.2 on my desktop Athlon then putting it into the laptop
only because RH6.2 didn't come with an Athlon enhanced kernel so installed the
default Pentium kernel).
Alternatively, if you have a desktop PC with a Pentium, Pentium MMX or Pentium
Pro chip in it and only IDE drives, you might want to try putting the hard
drive into that machine and using that to do the install.
I'm not familiar with the Suse install process but failing that, another thing
you might be able to try is either make a FAT32 'install' partition, copy the
minimal Suse install files to that partition, boot using a DOS floppy disk and
use some DOS utility to start the install (I believe early versions of
Slackware and RedHat used to let you do that sorta thing). I've also heard of
people having success doing network based installs of Linux as well.
Good luck!
- Raymond
Quoting John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:41:09 -0700
> From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Installing SuSE 9.1 On Libretto L100 - MORE INFO
>
> Here is some more information on where in the boot process it all goes
> wrong. I've typed in below the last 20 or so lines displayed before
> the kernel panic.
>
> RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> [1] illegal instruction mount -n -tproc...
> [1] illegal instruction mount -n -tsysfs...
> [1] illegal instruction cat /proc/cmdline
> starting udev
> /linuxrc: cannot create /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug: directory nonexistent
> creating devices
> [1] illegal instruction cat /proc/cmdline
> loading kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko
> [1] illegal instruction insmod /lib/modu...
> loading kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko
> [1] illegal instruction insmod /lib/modu...
> loading kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko
> [1] illegal instruction insmod /lib/modu...
> loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
> [1] illegal instruction insmod /lib/modu...
> [1] illegal instruction expr substr ${ro...
> [1] illegal instruction unmount -n /proc
> [1] illegal instruction unmount -n /sys
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on hda2
>
> Again, the desktop PC that I used to install SuSE on this Libretto's
> HDD obviously has very different CPU, hardware, RAM, etc than the
> Libretto. I had hoped SuSE would still boot, so I could go in and
> change some of those specs.
>
>
>
>
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