[gobolinux-devel] installing on new system...

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/16/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
> Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> ...big snip...
> > And now everything seems to work (it's running ProfileInstall right now...)
>
> Update:
>
> Well, the LiveCD with kernel 2.6.20 booted fine, and could handle my
> brand new SATA motherboard, etc... But since I didn't replace the
> "installed" kernel inside the squashfs image, the system then booted old
> 2.6.17.11, which doesn't support my SATA, so it panics when it can't
> mount the root fs!
>
> And, since the LiveCD boots with another kernel than the one installed
> in the LiveCD, I can't modprobe any drivers to get in touch with the
> outside world to copy in the new 2.6.20 kernel... At least I thought so,
> until I found my external CD-writer for my laptop! =)
>
> So I copied over the new kernel and the KernelPackage script to my root
> partition, chrooted to it and installed the new kernel. Voila!
>
> What a journey... Looking forward to some sleep.

Wow! Congratulations! :-))

I'd like to take your initrd script and put it, together with an
updated squashfs for the kernel image, as an alternative for those
having problems on the current 013. I'll be here this weekend, not
full time, but I'll certainly reserve some time to do that.

Thanks for your persistence! :-)

-- 
Lucas
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