Hi Geert, booting into the etch installer works very well this way. Thus I have the laptop now up with a
topsi:~# uname -a Linux topsi 2.6.17-2-486 #1 Wed Sep 13 15:56:30 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux topsi:~# kernel from the debian installer for etch. The laptop has etch installed, but grub/lilo are not setup correctly. When I run lilo (which worked before), I get: topsi:~# lilo /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)(compat) and kernel driver Added Linux * Fatal: open /vmlinuz.old: No such file or directory topsi:~# grub runs probably on a similar issue: topsi:~# grub-install /dev/hda /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. topsi:~# I am wondering, if the kernel on the etch d-i does not include the device-mapper (?). And if yes, if the d-i grub also runs without device mapper... Does that make any sense? Could I copy the boot directory of the laptop to the bootp server and boot the regular etch kernel from there? Thanks, Rainer Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 18:18 schrieb Geert Stappers: > Op 02-12-2006 om 18:36 schreef Rainer Dorsch: > > Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick > > would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick > > option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look > > identical for the laptop (except the capacity). > > > > PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive, > > (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd. > > To get PXE working, boot from a floppy from the etherboot project, > or the universal one at > ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html > > > HtH > GSt -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]