Ok, this weekend I purchased a shiny new SCSI hard drive, and tried
installing Cooker on it, with some mixed success. Note these are more bug
reports than support requests -- I've surmounted most of the problems
already. I'm always willing to learn if I've missed something, though. ;)
First of all, the Mandrake install always fails at mounting the root
partition (errmsg: "mount failed: No Such file or dir at
/usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 218") if a language other than US English
(or at least of the ones I tried) is selected at the beginning. I tested
UK English, Canadian French and Japanese (why not?).
Secondly, the default 2.2.17-22mdk kernel installed by the current Cooker
(FTP installed from ftp.ciril.fr) doesn't seem to include reiserfs
support, or something else is wrong with it. After an unremarkable
installation, the system reboots, and the kernel panics when it tries to
mount the (reiserfs-formatted) root fs. Any ideas?
Thirdly, and this is prehaps not related at all to Mandrake, neither Grub
nor Lilo seem happy trying to load off my SCSI hard drive. I was only able
to make it work by booting stage1 from the IDE drive, and stage2 from the
SCSI drive. Go figure. If anyone has encountered something similar before,
I'd like to hear from you, but I won't go into more detail as it's not
really Mandrake-related.
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Graeme Lennon -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=- Montreal, Canada
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