>>>>> "david" == David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

david> Juan Quintela wrote:
>> known problem, no way to create a boot disk for XFS sorry, but
>> floppyes are still 1.44MB & xfs alone is:

david> I thought there we ways to squeeze and extra 200k or so out of floppies?

no std, and no way to do it cleanly and that will work with all the
floppy drives & floppies :(


david> They aren't necessarily unresolved symbols for XFS. I'd try to get the
david> whole output but I don't think it is logged sicne this is of course
david> before init starts. There looks to be unresolved symbols in a whole
david> lot of modules, though.

Then something is wrong in mkinitrd, since several versions, I am not
able to release a kernel with unresolved symbols, they will just broke
the compilation before it finishes.

>> could you take a look at what is at the initrd?
>> cp /boot/intrd-xxxxxxx /tmp/initrd.gz
>> gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
>> mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/disk
>> ls -l /mnt/disk
>> cat /mnt/disk/linuxrc
>> that will give me one idea of what is happening
>> 

david> I will get you the exact output after I sleep... so give this 8 hours
david> or so, after all, it is Sunday ;)

ok, I also need to go to sleep.

>> try, to remove /boot/initrd<of your kernel>
>> urpme last kernel
>> urpmi last kernel, and see if this fixes the problem, if it is not
>> fixed, send me what errors it gives while you are installing also.

david> I have tried, for example, if I remove the kernel, so I have no kernel
david> installed, then I do the "Upgrade install" the install will add a
david> kernel for me.

yep, but if you install it with urpmi, you can have _several_ kernels
installed.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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