On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:46 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > hd:4 root=/dev/hda4 rw > > but the kernel was unable to mount the root partition probably because > XFS isn't compiled into the default kernel (2.4.25-powerpc-pmac). > I reinstalled everthing using ext3 and the new system mounted the root > partition correctly. > > I believe that all filesystems offered during the installation need to > be compiled *into* the kernel.
They are provided as modules in an initrd. You must boot with the initrd. > When rebooting (with ext3) I found that /etc/fstab contained only one > line: # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM I think this is because you didn't complete the installation process. > After rebooting I kept the installation process until prompted for APT > sources. The system found the installation CD inserted so it indexed it, > but then I was unable to specify a different CD I have because I couldn't > eject the first CD. I had to switch to the second console, login as root, > execute eject, read the error message, find out the device name for the > cdrom, execute 'eject /dev/hdc', switch back to the first console. > > Then I selected to do not use aptitude, dselect or apt-get and I still > got a message about installing popularity-context but APT stopped > asking for a cdrom but it couldn't mount it because of the wrong /etc/fstab > > After creating /etc/fstab, APT worked correctly. And probably this too, then. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
