Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-29 Thread Dion
In regard to XFS, I just tried a reinstall and selected the ext3 file system. This yielded no change in the error. The system still boots and then complains as follows. "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-lock(8,1)" Okay, I am wondering if using XFS is somehow

Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-29 Thread Dion
Hi Tobias, Some small progress. Please see the inline comments. Tobias Gerschner wrote: Hi Dion, When the installation cd does boot you should be able to use Yoper on your system. It is using exactly the same kernel. To build an initrd image via yaird from the live cd into an existing system

Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-28 Thread Dion
Hi Tobias, Thanks for the valuable feedback. If this discussion should be moved out of the dev list, just let me know. I attempted as per your advice below. I had no problem with the tasks up to the "yaird -o /boot/init-2" However yaird produces the following error. "yaird error: could

Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-27 Thread Tobias Gerschner
2006/6/27, Dion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Tobias, The install did move very smoothly, however I cannot boot the machine. A kernel panic occurs like this: "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-lock(8,1)" From other posts in the forums this seems to mean that the sy

Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-27 Thread Dion
Hi Tobias, The install did move very smoothly, however I cannot boot the machine. A kernel panic occurs like this: "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-lock(8,1)" From other posts in the forums this seems to mean that the system does not have the kernel modul

Re: [yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-27 Thread Dion
I apologise for the previous email. The error was a failed cd burn. md5 is my friend.. I must remember this for next time :-) Cheers. D. I wrote: Hi everyone, I apologise now if this is the incorrect list for this email. If it is, simply point me to the right place. I attempted to install bla

[yoper-dev] Current Blacksand installer

2006-06-21 Thread Dion
Hi everyone, I apologise now if this is the incorrect list for this email. If it is, simply point me to the right place. I attempted to install blacksand on my backup box and couldn't make it work. My backup box is quit old, its a dual cpu mendocino celeron machine with only 256 meg of ram.