David Walluck wrote: > I use XFS for my root filesystem. > > After the installation, mkinitrd fails, so that obviously the kernel > fails to mount the XFS root filesystem. Unfortunately I can't find any > errors being reported by mkinitrd. > > Right now when I try to use a rescue RAM disk and run the system that > way, it tells me that the RAM disk image is too large. > > My major questions are: > > 1.) Does mkinitrd ever report any descriptive errors? > > 2.) How can I run mkinitrd with a different root (i.e. /mnt) if I do > happen to get the system to boot some other way? > > 3.) Is the RAM disk a completely different problem? >
I did some investigating. ddebug.log says nothing about why it fails, but then the bootloader fails too and the install is stuck in a loop. That is interesting because '/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt' from the shell worked fine. *** The major bug is the install is not adding the 'initrd=' lines to '/etc/lilo.conf' (for any kernel!). Each kernel needs to use its own particular initrd in order for things to work correctly. It should also take care not to use the '/boot/initrd.img' symlink, since this is only good for a particular kernel. *** There are some other unrelated bugs. 1.) The installer completely ignores the hostname I enter and uses the one from the DHCP server instead. I need to change it manually after the install finishes. In addition, the auto-generated hostname seems to be incorrect, it's certainly not what the nameserver returns, but it's possible that the DHCP server is returning the wrong hostname. 2.) I have an emu10k1, and the install incorrectly uses the ALSA drivers. I don't think they work well, and they should not be preferred over the OSS drivers because, for example, you cannot use the mixer with ALSA. The install gives no option to choose the sound driver, however if I run 'draksound' after the install, it will choose the OSS driver (or at least does not provide an ALSA option). 3.) drakxservices (newt version) displays nothing but 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons. ntsysv from console works fine, however. -- Sincerely, David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
