>> Since some of those parititions might be (as they are in our case)
>> components of a software RAID and since the act of mounting them
>> causes uncoordinated modfications to the mirrors behind MD's back,
>> we're less than pleased with this "helpful" behavior.
> [...]
>Any idea how to recover
Michael ODonnell wrote:
> ...
> Since some of those
> parititions might be (as they are in our case) components
> of a software RAID and since the act of mounting them causes
> uncoordinated modfications to the mirrors behind MD's back,
> we're less than pleased with this "helpful" behavior.
>
> Bu
> Note to self: Avoid CentOS live discs.
...or at least be careful: I don't claim that *all* discs
created using that LiveCD-creator kit are b0rken and (to your
point in a previous msg) the standard installation CDs and DVDs
do seem to work just fine. But the ones I generated in-house
definite
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Michael ODonnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On machines with IDE-connected drives ...
> ... machines with SATA-connected DVD drives ...
Sheesh, that don't leave much. What good is a live CD that can't
actually boot on 99% of the computers out there?
> ... co
>
> So I've been looking for something that'll allow me to create a
> new bootable/live/rescue DVD that I can base the new installer
> on, and I'd love to find something as simple and flexible as
> the Timo's kit; something that just starts a kernel and boots
> up to a console login prompt with a m
>> The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
>> bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
>
> I'm curious. Got time to provide any details? In particular, why
>would the regular CentOS install disc work for you when the "live"
>disc would not? Are
> WTF is /sbin/loader ?
>
>It executes early during startup when booting from an ISO. The
>only stuff I can find online about this apparently pivotal item
>is lots of other people also asking questions, but no answers.
Ah. I used "strings" on the /sbin/loader file from the ISO
and divined th
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
> > bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
>
> I'm curious. Got ti
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
> bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
I'm curious. Got time to provide any details? In particular, why
would the regular
I'm working on a product that's currently based on RHEL3 and
whose installer is based on the venerable Timo's Rescue CD kit.
We've ported our product to a more current version of Linux and
when I went to port the installer I discovered that development
on Timo's kit stopped after 2004 and it still
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