Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-10 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredag 9. januar 2004, 17:35, skrev Erik Dykema: > Comments/Problems: > 1. Everything seems to install fine excepting the kernel. The red > screen comes up and says that the kernel failed. I hit alt-f3 to see > what happened, and find the following:

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:34PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > >> Things that seem curious: > >> Why is mkinitd caring about my hardware devices, doesn't it just > >>need to see the files in /target? > >mkinitrd needs to build an initrd that will be able to find the real > >root device after

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > This is my third install report, apoligies for errors, welcome > correction. It is similar but more complete (due to the busybox bug > being fixed) than yesterday's with the same kernel install problem. > Is there an outs

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Erik Dykema
Things that seem curious: Why is mkinitd caring about my hardware devices, doesn't it just need to see the files in /target? mkinitrd needs to build an initrd that will be able to find the real root device after booting. If /target/dev/cciss doesn't exist, mkinitrd has nothing to work fro

Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Erik Dykema
Hi- This is my third install report, apoligies for errors, welcome correction. It is similar but more complete (due to the busybox bug being fixed) than yesterday's with the same kernel install problem. Is there an outstanding bug in mkinitrd / initrd-tools that is causing this? thanks, Erik