Re: Boot Floppie problems.
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 11:24:35PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> I just tested a slink base install using the boot floppies from incoming
> (it is the 27th), their internal date was the 17th of December, their file
> dates are the 19th.
I'm going to upload boot-floppies_2.1.4 RSN.
> I had several major problems.
> 1) FAT32 partitions STILL don't work! This has been a problem ever
> since beta-hamm!
> 2) modconf doesn't work
> 3) Weird warnings/errors
> 4) No automatic lilo
>
> Details:
> #1, If you have a fat32 partition and want to install from a 'harddisk'
> then the installer will NOT detect and list these partitions as
> mountable, even though going to a console at using mount by hand
> works fine. I have attached the output of fdisk -l, with this system
> the install program lists no partitions to select from.
Fixed in boot-floppies_2.1.4.
> #2 I have no idea, for some damaged reason when you select 'net' from
> the first screen it stops! I ran it with sh -x once I had installed and
> it does a read, output is attached.
Fixed in modconf_0.2.23
> #3 I recived a few bizzar warning,
> 1) Something involving loop.o, it was trying to insmod it or something,
> doesn't exit - it also doesn't exist after I had installed it.
> 2) Can't find bin/ifport
> 3) A weird error about not being able to unpack the driver disk, this
> happened the second time I had tried to do it in the same run
> 4) Ctrl-C'ing modconf causes it to skip unpacking the base system, and
> jump to configuring the base system (confusing)
>
> The LILO step also did not work as I have installed linux on a second
> drive, I see no reason it should do that, it can put lilo in the MBR of
> the primary disk or in an extended partition on the primary. I know of
> very few systems that cannot lilo boot from the secondary IDE drive.
The LILO configuration is a mess, but I haven't had time to work on it.
I will try to improve it for boot-floppies_2.1.5.
> I have this system for a few more days, so if you want me to try again be
> quick about it.
Expect a new upload before the weekend.
> Do you guys read debian testing? I know that at least #1 has been
> mentioned many times for a very long time.
As you may have seen, I read debian-testing, and answer almost all
boot-floppies-related messages that pop there.
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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