Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The next time i'm physically near the machine, i'll try reseating > the battery to clear it up, and report back if that clears my > problem. Woohoo! It worked! Before shutting it down to reseat the battery, i removed the rtc-dev module, which let me hav

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:13:21PM -0700, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > Unless you built your own installer image to use packages from > unstable, or manually switched to unstable packages after the install, > you would not have been affected by the bug. And if you are using > unstable, you shouldn't

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Phil On 11/27/06, Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, a polite request: next time, would you mind putting up a bug report so that people can have some warning that there might be a problem? (OK, I should probably have posted to the list to enquire earlier myself...) Unless you

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Philip Armstrong
> No, I sent a email to the package maintainer instead :-) He has fixed > the problem in the repository version of nslu2-utils. Do you know how many times I reflashed my (lovely new) nslu2 last week and ran the Debian installer again to get back to a working system? A lot, that's how many. (Yes, I