Re: Boot floppies of RC1 broken for VAIO laptop
Hi Geert,
booting into the etch installer works very well this way. Thus I have the
laptop now up with a
topsi:~# uname -a
Linux topsi 2.6.17-2-486 #1 Wed Sep 13 15:56:30 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
topsi:~#
kernel from the debian installer for etch. The laptop has etch installed, but
grub/lilo are not setup correctly.
When I run lilo (which worked before), I get:
topsi:~# lilo
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)(compat) and kernel driver
Added Linux *
Fatal: open /vmlinuz.old: No such file or directory
topsi:~#
grub runs probably on a similar issue:
topsi:~# grub-install /dev/hda
/dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
topsi:~#
I am wondering, if the kernel on the etch d-i does not include the
device-mapper (?). And if yes, if the d-i grub also runs without device
mapper...
Does that make any sense?
Could I copy the boot directory of the laptop to the bootp server and boot the
regular etch kernel from there?
Thanks,
Rainer
Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 18:18 schrieb Geert Stappers:
> Op 02-12-2006 om 18:36 schreef Rainer Dorsch:
> > Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick
> > would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick
> > option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look
> > identical for the laptop (except the capacity).
> >
> > PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive,
> > (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd.
>
> To get PXE working, boot from a floppy from the etherboot project,
> or the universal one at
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html
>
>
> HtH
> GSt
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