RE: [Cooker] capturing boot output
My apologies for the errant continued use of smb. I actually knew it was smp, but somehow it kept coming out wrong. The startup graphic does not load. Thanks for your input. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blue Lizard Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] capturing boot output I always find it very fun to boot the rescue image and check around /boot for everything to be gravy and then re-lilo. Please stop calling you mobo SMB, as it makes me think samba. If u intend to mean symetric multi processing (sp), try SMP. the dmesg remark i invalidated because obviously there is no dmesg if the fscking kernel cant load. Please try a 31.08.01 build? I wonder how i fixed it when mine used to do that... Look, if the welcome graphic picks up, forget all that I have told you, it is N/A as I have misunderstood. Same goes for if initrd starts loading crap (modules?) already. If it _then_ goes, you have a lower level (as in deeper, not less import) prob. Consider waiting for chmouel to suck it up and be a man, instead of calling in ill like a wuss. Let's see...where was I going with this...oh yeah, go to rescue and mkinitrd again if u think that is the prob. anyway...b
RE: [Cooker] capturing boot output
Yes, same he. :-) Sorry, I can't find the earlier response about dmesg but it doesn't seem like that would help as the failure happens so fast. I am not completely conversant on the launch sequence of Linux but I think the error might be in my initrd image. LILO hands off to initrd, which then loads and spits out about 15 lines of text. It doesn't appear to load the 2.4 kernel. The text prints out and then starts printing sequences of [] (numbers vary). All this happens in about 1 to 2 seconds. Again, P3 800 SMB with one cpu installed. Haven't tried scroll lock but don't expect that to help. Given that I have no filesystem loaded at that point, log files are useless. Wondering if there are alternate initrd images taht I can use if I boot to a boot disk. My /boot is ext2 so accessing from an initrd is easy. Reggie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blue Lizard Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] capturing boot output Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > I believe you can pause the screen. dmesg isn't helping? You did not read his other thread about why he needs this info (assuming 'he'). There is no dmesg to get to, it doesn't even successfully hand off from lilo to kernel. I don't know if the scroll lock key helps in these situations? How might he pause the screen otherwise? B
[Cooker] capturing boot output
how do I go about capturing the output before the kernel loads? I need to capture the intial console output generated by the intial ramdisk loader. My beta2 won't boot and the 15 or so lines that stream by are so fast I can't read them. Thanks Reggie
[Cooker] ext3
I am having trouble booting beta 2 using 2.4 kernel. If I include the 2.2 kernel, does it support ext3? Reggie
RE: [Cooker] Beta 2 issue
I have also tried the Redhat 7.2 beta and it uses the 2.4 kernel and works fine on this computer. Any idea why the MDK 2.4 kernel doesn't work? Any idea how I can capture the output when it first starts to boot. As I said, it prints out about 15 lines or so and then freaks out. Those 15 lines go by so fast that I can't read them. Reggie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:59 AM To: Reggie Burnett Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Beta 2 issue "Reggie Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, the install works fine. I am not given any option of booting a 2.2 > kernel. You need to select the "kernel22" package during install. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
RE: [Cooker] Beta 2 issue
Yes, the install works fine. I am not given any option of booting a 2.2 kernel. My system is a Gateway P3-800 Mhz. It is a SMB board with only 1 cpu installed. Dual boot with win2k 392 megs ram no scsi 3com ethernet NVidia GeForce 2 video card -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Beta 2 issue "Reggie Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure if this is the right place to ask this. I have downloaded and > tried each of the alphas (Freq 1 & 2) and betas (1 & 2). Each one fails in > the same way on my machine. On boot, it prints out a few messages (too fast > I can't see them) and then proceeds to print row after row of soemthing like > this: []. I am not sure if that is the right number, but that is > the format of the value. It continuously fills the screen with these values > until you reboot. This happens right at boot time, even before the kernel > gets loaded. > > Any ideas? is there a switch I can pass on the LILO command line that might > help? > > MDK 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 8.0 all work fine on the same system. Can you do the install or not ? If you can do the install, can you choose to boot on 2.2 kernel ? What's your precised processor description ? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] Beta 2 issue
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this. I have downloaded and tried each of the alphas (Freq 1 & 2) and betas (1 & 2). Each one fails in the same way on my machine. On boot, it prints out a few messages (too fast I can't see them) and then proceeds to print row after row of soemthing like this: []. I am not sure if that is the right number, but that is the format of the value. It continuously fills the screen with these values until you reboot. This happens right at boot time, even before the kernel gets loaded. Any ideas? is there a switch I can pass on the LILO command line that might help? MDK 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 8.0 all work fine on the same system. Reggie
[Cooker] VPN masquerade in Cookfire
Can anyone tell me if cookfire beta has VPN masquerade patches applied to the kernel? if so, how do I enable them to pass PPTP packets? Thanks Reggie
