On Thursday 21 June 2001 21:44, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> civileme wrote:
> > I had hoped to have better news, but here is the situation:
> >
> > MandrakeFreq has a boot image which sets up the Off-Board
> > IDE controllers the same way they will be used by the
> > installed kernel. This means no kernel panic on boot.
> >
> > That's the good news. The other news is that you MUST have
> > the Freq CD (s) to make use of this option. Using the
> > cdrom.img on a boot floppy with the standard 8.0 does NOT
> > work.
> >
> > Another fix in MandrakeFreq is the psaux situation for IBM
> > Notebooks... and naturally there is lots of new and wild
> > stuff.
> >
> > Civileme
> > QA Team
>
> Do you mean that we should start the install with a
> MandrakeFreq CD, then, after the 'Choose a Language' window
> comes up, swich to the 'core system' CD?
Absolutely not.
Install Freq or use the manual fix.
To find where root is moved quickly, use the bootloader --say
the installer for 8.0 says it is going to /dev/hdg5 Use the
bootloader to make linux boots linuxa with root at /dev/hda5,
linuxb with root at /dev/hdb5, and so on. Cover all
possibilities. Then try each boot. On all but one you will get
kernel panic, unable to mount root fs. The one where you don't
tells you where / is, but it will still fail because /etc/fstab
is out of sync.
Then you can boot with the rescue disk, do the expert-level
mounting of /dev/hdg5 and changing root there, then mounting
/usr to get your editors and editing /etc/fstab, links(if
necessary) and lilo.conf to delete all the inappropriate boots,
run /sbin/lilo, then you should be in business on the next
non-rescue boot.
