On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:30 pm, John Layt wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:17, Andr�s Keszei wrote: > > As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most > > of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself > > surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc. The only way you could > > have gotten away with it, is if you had found an exactly the same armada > > _with_ a CD drive and installed on that. > > No, wrong. If he had hand-compiled the kernel to match his hardware, or if > he made a major change in platform to say AMD64, this might be true, but > for Pentium class 32 bit single processor boards Mandrake uses a standard > pre-compiled generic i586 kernel, with hardware driver modules loaded as > required. Harddrake runs at boot, and if the hardware changes then it > changes the config files for the hardware modules as required. > > How do you think bootable Linux CD's like Knoppix or Mandrake Move manage > to work on wildly different hardware??? > > If you read the error messages he gives, the boot fails only when it tries > to mount the root filesystem and the mount fails. The kernel by that stage > is already happily running on the hardware, /proc has been created and udev > is up. > > Aron: The fault here lies in the HDD or filesystem config. Wait for Mikkel > to get back to you, he's right on the money here. Okie Dokie better than dismanteling the laptop again. > > John. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red > Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp > UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm > Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp > NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205
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