Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-03 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 16:35, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is why, Guillaume, an new rescue menu entry to rebuild a kernel initrd would be a

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-03 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Jeudi 3 Avril 2003 12:54, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 16:35, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is why, Guillaume, an

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-03 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not exactly. that's the case for reinstalling bootloader for example. all experts know easily how to do that, but there is a menu entry, because the rescue is not only for experts. same applies to reboot. That's what I wanted to read, at last.

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 09:24, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : Gary Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First I was to mount /proc because mkinitrd _does not check_ that /proc is available and thus we end in a loop at the step it scans for /proc/mounts FS. I don't consider that to be a

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Guillaume Cottenceau said, I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) : boot rescue cd1 mount all FS on /mnt go to console chroot /mnt First I was to mount /proc because mkinitrd _does not check_ that

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau said, I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) : boot rescue cd1 mount all FS on

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 12:21, Neil Bothwick a écrit : Guillaume Cottenceau said, I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) : boot rescue cd1 mount all FS on /mnt go to console chroot /mnt First I

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is why, Guillaume, an new rescue menu entry to rebuild a kernel initrd would be a plus in case someone has destroyed or corrupted it. (nothing to do with mdk installation here, just a

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-02 Thread Pascal
Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 16:35, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is why, Guillaume, an new rescue menu entry to rebuild a kernel initrd would be a plus in case someone has destroyed or

[Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Pascal Cavy
After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore. I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1 rescue CD. I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Pascal Cavy wrote: After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore. I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1 rescue CD. I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pascal Cavy wrote: After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore. I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1 rescue CD. I

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Mardi 1 Avril 2003 19:20, Buchan Milne a écrit : Pascal Cavy wrote: After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore. I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1 rescue

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore. /root/drakx/report.bug.gz would help. I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask gc to add an option to the menu ;-)? Buchan yes an option in the rescue menu could be a plus for newbies... definitely not. rebuilding the initrd wouldn't magically fix the reason why the initrd generation failed during install. -- Guillaume

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Pascal
Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 00:42, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask gc to add an option to the menu ;-)? Buchan yes an option in the rescue menu could be a plus for newbies... definitely not. rebuilding the initrd wouldn't magically fix the

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Robert L Martin
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Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Gary Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 5:40 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Pascal Cavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore.

Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom

2003-04-01 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Gary Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First I was to mount /proc because mkinitrd _does not check_ that /proc is available and thus we end in a loop at the step it scans for /proc/mounts FS. I don't consider that to be a bug. Many (all?) of our system tools rely very much on /proc