Re: need major help- RESCUE and ROOT disks
Hey there, how is everybody doing. I shall now explain my situation in a better way. I need to make some rescue disks with my kernel with its root disk (so when i use them i get some mini distro in ram ). Once I reach that staage. I want to be able to mount my reisefs partitions / ext2 partitions etc. I need to do this because then i can do clear mounting , formatting, download system backups from local intranet ftp server etc. I have tried everything. I read the bootdisk howto (followed that), i even did copying kernel to normal debian disks. The problem is i get the kernel working but when it asksfor root disk ... things dont work. It says kernelpanic etc. I use kernel 2.4.0test2-ac2 with reiserfs patch. . I have ramdisk option with rams size to 8192KB from default 4096KB and initrd option also enabled. Now I don't know are my rescue disks bad or root disks bad ...so its very frustrating. I would really appreciate if someone told me on how to do this exactly (step by step) from making a rescue disk and a rootfs disk I even tried YARD no luck with that. I have spent more than 2 weeks on this...I am not getting any luck. thank you exo My kernel is 733KB (recommend one) I think I can scale it down little bit more if needed. thanks again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CALL FOR HELP : debian boot floppies 2.2.15 on apus still not ok.
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:24:36PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > $ mount -r -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop0 resceu.bin /mnt > > > > And see if it can be mounted ... > > It works if I omit the '=/dev/loop0' , and now on the second try (after > getting back to the installer main menu) df shows /dev/loop0 . > > So the problem must be elsewhere, any ideas? Oho! Now that is interesting. Is /dev/loop0 created properly (I think someone doublechecked that earlier...)? If so, then I would blame the APUS kernel patches. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: confusing link
I assume you are using nutscrape or the internut exploder to download these files, simply shift click on them rather than clicking, both these megaliths will open files without extensions as text files Jeff > "Greg W. Dugdale" wrote: > >Hello, > I am sure that this not the proper forum to ask this;but I am very > confused at this point. I am trying to install from a DOS partition.In > the section of the guide sited, there are what appears to be several > links to neede files for this install method. I have obtained all but > he one titled "LINUX".When this link is selected it loads a page of > what looks like code. > I can not locate any file simply called LINUX on any Debian > related FTP site. Can you please help me? > Regards Greg W. Dugdale > > > > Get the following files from your nearest Debian FTP mirror and put > them into a directory on your DOS partition: resc1440.bin, > drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat and loadlin.exe > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CALL FOR HELP : debian boot floppies 2.2.15 on apus still not ok.
Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Everything works fine, but when i come to the step where i would normally do
> :
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> * install os kernel & modules
>
> i give the corrct place in the requester, and dbootstrap tries to loop mount
> the rescue.bin image to fetch the kernel and the modules, and fail.
Confirm that. ("Roger that" ;)
Messages from VT 3 I consider relevant:
running cmd 'mount -r -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /floppy'
Mounting /dev/loop0 on /floppy failed: invalid argument
Looks like it tries to use /dev/loop0 as a fake floppy drive and fails.
> I then tried testing by hand, with :
>
> $ mount -r -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop0 resceu.bin /mnt
> Mounting rescue.bin on /mnt failed : block device required
It has just worked for me with just '-o loop', and I notice that it seems to
be mounted from /dev/loop1 (df output).
> $ mount -r -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop0 resceu.bin /mnt
>
> And see if it can be mounted ...
It works if I omit the '=/dev/loop0' , and now on the second try (after
getting back to the installer main menu) df shows /dev/loop0 .
So the problem must be elsewhere, any ideas?
Michel
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Bug#66963: boot-floppies: The installation program has a bug creating a new account.
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: normal During the installation the program ask if you want to create a normal account. When it creates the new account it doesn't create the .bashrc and the .bash_profile in the home directory of the new user. If you use useradd it works. Bye -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux gauss 2.2.16 #2 Sat Jul 8 15:49:22 CEST 2000 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
confusing link
Hello, I am sure that this not the proper forum to ask this;but I am very confused at this point. I am trying to install from a DOS partition.In the section of the guide sited, there are what appears to be several links to neede files for this install method. I have obtained all but he one titled "LINUX".When this link is selected it loads a page of what looks like code. I can not locate any file simply called LINUX on any Debian related FTP site. Can you please help me? Regards Greg W. Dugdale Get the following files from your nearest Debian FTP mirror and put them into a directory on your DOS partition: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat and loadlin.exe
Re: need major help- RESCUE and ROOT disks
Exodous wrote: > > Hey, > > How is everyone doing. I really need some help. I need to make custom > rescue and root disks for my systems with my specific kernel > (2.4.0-test2-ac2). I have tried so many ways and I have not reached any > success. I read the bootdisk howto , yard etc . I have no luck. If > someone can help with steps on how to make it. (I even tried to put my new > kernel in debian rescue disks and nothing happened). I would really > appreciate if someone can tell the perfect way to do it . I have been > trying for more than 2 weeks. So any help is appreciated. > > thank you > > exo > > (i need something which makes the root partition to go on ramdisk etc > something along those lines ...what debian rescue and root disks do ..like > that thanks) > Where did you have problems, getting the kernel on the disk, or getting the 2.4-test kernel to work with the installer? Did the kernel boot ? The rescue disk just uses the syslinux boot loader, you should just be able to rename your new kernel to the same name as the one on the rescue disk and copy it to the floppy. Busybox has some problems with 2.4, does your situation definitaly need 2.4, is there a way you can avoid it till afterwards isntalling. If your doing other things other that installing you may want to look at the /Documentation in the kernel, there is a ramdisk.txt initrd.txt, apart from those there is other groovy stuff in 2.4 you may want to consider like ramfs. There is a way to specify a different kernel in the boot-floppies source configuration files somewhere, i havent done it that way myself, but it would be the way its supposed to be done. If your experimenting a lot you may want to give vmware a go, saves rebooting all the time. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
