Re: Broken loop device

1999-05-04 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi again Eric, > > But how can this happen? I succesfully managed to create a swap partition > > (about 128 megs)... > > Is your swap space really available ? (look at /proc/meminfo) It IS, definitely! ;-) In the meantime, I got around this problem by skipping the bad blocks test and after I r

Re: Broken loop device

1999-05-03 Thread Eric Delaunay
Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > Hi Eric, > > thanks for the reply... > > > sorry for the late reply, I was too busy to read all my emails last week > > :-( > > > > But you know: It's never too late! :-) > > > How many memory is installed in your SLC ? > > You've got the problem! :-) > It has on

Re: Broken loop device

1999-05-02 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi Eric, thanks for the reply... > sorry for the late reply, I was too busy to read all my emails last week :-( > But you know: It's never too late! :-) > How many memory is installed in your SLC ? You've got the problem! :-) It has only 8 megs installed - somewhat tiny, hm? :-( In the mean

Re: Broken loop device

1999-05-02 Thread Eric Delaunay
message "broken loop device detected...". If installing on a local harddisk, the image could be copied on the harddisk before mounting it, thus not requiring so many memory filled up by the ramdisk. [**] Such a patch could exists somewhere on the net... Andreas Jaehnigen wrote

Broken loop device

1999-04-28 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
. The source for installation is NFS. And yes, I'm sure I've set the "root" and "rw" options for the NFS share... ;-))) But here, after a short while, the SLC hangs with a window on its screen saying "Broken loop device detected. Copying resc1440.bin to local bef