Installation problems: boot, nfs, X
Hi!
I finally moved from RH(2.1) to Debian(1.1.4) and I have to admit that this
looks promising! Just learned the first steps using dselect; hopefully
I learn to ftp the latest version of Debian with it someday!
Jep, I also run into three problems. First, I am only able to boot with
a floppy. I installed lilo on the mbr of /dev/hda during the installation
but when I reboot the machine says
Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay
Press spacebar to boot from diskette...
ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected.
Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information.
Insert boot ...
It seems to be a hardware problem. Or?
2. In the Debian installation I tried to include the nfs-module into the
kernel. It did not succeed, but gave the following (I reproduced this
with modprobe)
Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6
(the whole message is in http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio/nfs_error.txt).
I will compile the kernel as soon as I get more familiar with the
Debian-style kernel compilation. But it would be nice to get nfs running
right now.
3. I am not able to run XFree. I'm using the Mach64-server with a
XF86Config that worked with RH 2.1. I just get (startx)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (No such device)
TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
The mouse error is due to ps2-style mouse, which is not in the kernel.
I haven't tested another xserver yet, so it still possible that mach64
is the problem (with Xfree 3.1.2). Sometimes I got something running,
because the screen went blank with flickering, and I had to reboot.
(That might be a genuine mach problem.) But usually the above text
appeared. I reinstalled the x11 packages, but it did not seem to help.
I tried to search these from docs, debian-user archives, newsgroups,
ChangeLog of Debian 1.1.8, and Debian FAQ (new one), but I didn't find
anything. Could someone help me on this?
--
Mikko
http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio
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