I'm working on a product that's currently based on RHEL3 and
whose installer is based on the venerable Timo's Rescue CD kit.
We've ported our product to a more current version of Linux and
when I went to port the installer I discovered that development
on Timo's kit stopped after 2004 and it
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
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The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
I'm curious. Got time to provide any details? In particular, why
would the regular
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
I'm curious. Got time to
The CentOS5.2 LiveCD-creator kit looked promising until we found
bugs that prevent it from running on our bleeding-edge hardware.
I'm curious. Got time to provide any details? In particular, why
would the regular CentOS install disc work for you when the live
disc would not? Aren't they
So I've been looking for something that'll allow me to create a
new bootable/live/rescue DVD that I can base the new installer
on, and I'd love to find something as simple and flexible as
the Timo's kit; something that just starts a kernel and boots
up to a console login prompt with a
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On machines with IDE-connected drives ...
... machines with SATA-connected DVD drives ...
Sheesh, that don't leave much. What good is a live CD that can't
actually boot on 99% of the computers out there?
...
Note to self: Avoid CentOS live discs.
...or at least be careful: I don't claim that *all* discs
created using that LiveCD-creator kit are b0rken and (to your
point in a previous msg) the standard installation CDs and DVDs
do seem to work just fine. But the ones I generated in-house
WTF is /sbin/loader ?
It executes early during startup when booting from an ISO. The
only stuff I can find online about this apparently pivotal item
is lots of other people also asking questions, but no answers.
Ah. I used strings on the /sbin/loader file from the ISO
and divined that
Michael ODonnell wrote:
...
Since some of those
parititions might be (as they are in our case) components
of a software RAID and since the act of mounting them causes
uncoordinated modfications to the mirrors behind MD's back,
we're less than pleased with this helpful behavior.
Bug reports
Since some of those parititions might be (as they are in our case)
components of a software RAID and since the act of mounting them
causes uncoordinated modfications to the mirrors behind MD's back,
we're less than pleased with this helpful behavior.
[...]
Any idea how to recover those
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