On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 09:09, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Ryan S Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > > > It installed fine; however whenever I try and boot I get the following > > > > message: > > > > > > > > .... > > > > EXT2_fs: unable to read superblock > > > > mount: error 22 mounting ext2 flags > > > > Freeing unsused kernel memory: 140k freed > > > > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > > > > > Hum this is not enough for us to debug... can you get the file > > > /root/drakx/report.bug.gz (with the rescue for example) and send > > > it to us? > > > > I think(?) I found the solution in the errata section on the MDK website > > last night. Apparently there is an issue with mounting a raid partition > > as /. I believe this may be the reason the rescue CD can't mount the > > partitions after I've done an install. Now I just need to find a floppy > > drive to install the patch with. I didn't have any space for one the > > case so I went w/o it when I built the system. > > Yep. (Pixel -> you see, people do read the Errata's ;p). > > 1- there is an issue with booting off a raid-on-/ which > previously had raid-on-/ > I tried applying the patch. It runs me back through another install. I tried just about every combination possible and still no luck. Is there some step I need to be sure and do in order to guarantee the system is patched?
Tonight I'm going to try an remove / from a raided partition. ryan > 2- the rescue doesn't really support raid (i'll try to do it for > 9.1) > > > (Any Chance I could install the patch from the CD drive or Parallel port > > zip drive??) > > Hum, I don't think so but I'm not sure. Pixel can you confirm? > > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
