On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 12:10, David Walluck wrote:
> 2.) How can I run mkinitrd with a different root (i.e. /mnt) if I do
> happen to get the system to boot some other way?
# chroot /mnt ; mkinitrd ; exit
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Brad Felmey
Pixel wrote:
>David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>
>>ddebug.log says nothing about why it fails, but then the bootloader fails too
>>and the install is stuck in a loop.
>>
>>That is interesting because '/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt' from the shell worked
>>fine.
>>
>>The major bug is the i
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Right, so it turned out mkinitrd worked, but was never added to lilo (since
> both mkinitrd and lilo portions of the install fail). One problem the install
> has is that I have two disks, '/dev/hda' and '/dev/hde'. '/dev/hda' is the
> first norma
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 10:30, Pixel wrote:
> David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I use XFS for my root filesystem.
> >
> > After the installation, mkinitrd fails, so that obviously the kernel fails to
> > mount the XFS root filesystem. Unfortunately I can't find any errors being
> > r
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * running: mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.19-xfs.img --ifneeded 2.4.19-xfs with
>root /mnt
> No module xfs_support found for kernel 2.4.19-xfs
> * warning: mkinitrd failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/bootloader.pm line 64.
here is the why. I'll try to f
David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ddebug.log says nothing about why it fails, but then the bootloader fails too
> and the install is stuck in a loop.
>
> That is interesting because '/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt' from the shell worked
> fine.
>
> The major bug is the install is not adding t
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 06:18, David Walluck wrote:
It's cooker, but the install says RC2. I can't get the real RC2 (RC1,
whatever) because as far as I can tell they are only offered as .iso
files, and I don't have a CD burner in my computer. I only do the HTTP
or FTP based instal
David Walluck wrote:
> I use XFS for my root filesystem.
>
> After the installation, mkinitrd fails, so that obviously the kernel
> fails to mount the XFS root filesystem. Unfortunately I can't find any
> errors being reported by mkinitrd.
>
> Right now when I try to use a rescue RAM disk and r
