On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17, András Keszei wrote: > As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most > of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself > surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc. The only way you could > have gotten away with it, is if you had found an exactly the same armada > _with_ a CD drive and installed on that.
No, wrong. If he had hand-compiled the kernel to match his hardware, or if he made a major change in platform to say AMD64, this might be true, but for Pentium class 32 bit single processor boards Mandrake uses a standard pre-compiled generic i586 kernel, with hardware driver modules loaded as required. Harddrake runs at boot, and if the hardware changes then it changes the config files for the hardware modules as required. How do you think bootable Linux CD's like Knoppix or Mandrake Move manage to work on wildly different hardware??? If you read the error messages he gives, the boot fails only when it tries to mount the root filesystem and the mount fails. The kernel by that stage is already happily running on the hardware, /proc has been created and udev is up. Aron: The fault here lies in the HDD or filesystem config. Wait for Mikkel to get back to you, he's right on the money here. John. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205
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