On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:29:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Success reports welcomed but not expected. Failure reports only if they are > > particularly entertaining. Expect more in the days to come. > > I tried installing this, along with the root.bin from: > http://web.espy.org/ftp/debian/ramdisk.image.gz, > which was mentioned in some other message I now can't find. > > Well ... I got what you'd call a -partial- success. By skipping 'install > kernel and modules', which hung the installer if i used any means but > floppy (ugh...and I have random system hangs when using floppies for > anything ...) I pretty much got everything else installed fine. > > However, when I went to try the first boot, at some time very early in the > boot process (it even happened with 'single') the machine would loop > endlessly printing what looked like 2 or 3 lines of errors from kmod... > one might have been the 'waitpid' thing in the source, it had some > parentheses and numbers and commas... unfortunately it was scrolling too > fast to read. > > I thought this was odd given that the rootdisk booted nicely. > > Also: the modules in your directory were 2.2.14, while the kernel is > 2.2.15pre3? So installing modules to see if that would help ... wouldn't. > Or so I assume?
Actually, the kernel and modules are both 2.2.15pre3. I just kept the package version at 2.2.14 for simplicity. I'll have a new build in a few days, with luck. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
