On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 20:37 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > I just finished another install. It went fine now (ignoring that one > retry I had to do). I have a kernel in /boot and sudo works. I chose to > install the desktop system software collection (previously my only > option there was mail server) and ended up with just the console, but > that's not too bad. I could install stuff (with "untrusted packages" > warning). So the installer seems to work for me after all.
I also selected desktop and got only a console. For the untrusted packages warning it went away when I switched to lenny repositories. > What's not so great is my bootloader. PMON only sees the first two data > partitions. I'm getting by with loading a kernel from one of those > partitions and setting root=/dev/hda5. Going to take a closer look at this. FWIW here are my partition table and the cmdline (which gives the PMON version) of my lemote yeelong: $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 0 156290904 hda 3 1 58605088 hda1 3 2 1052257 hda2 3 3 57560895 hda3 3 4 1 hda4 3 5 19535008 hda5 $ cat /proc/cmdline console=tty no_auto_cmd root=/dev/hda5 PMON_VER=LM8089-1.3.5 EC_VER=LM8089-PQ1D02-1.20-081225151210 Laurent _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
