Mandrake 8.1 distro

[Gregory Nowak]

What errors do you get when running lilo?
Greg



> ----- Original Message -----

>From: Ron Marriage <marriage at seidata.com

>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca

>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:10:18 -0500

>Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.1 distro

>I had installed as XFS file system.

>Mandrake by default does an ext2, but I think I did install

>for that and other journilized systems.

>Yes, ran lilo and it boots but stops with the errors.

>I have been told I can't do  make oldconfig, because

>mandrake uses a customized kernel and includes many options

>not found in a standard source kernel.

>If anyone knows differently about this, I'd appreciate

>knowing about it.

>Thanks

>Ron


>Thomas Ward wrote:

>> Couple of things here to think about.  Did you include support in your kernel

>>for the file system that your Linux system is installed to.  As I recall

>>Mandrake 8.1 uses ext3 by default.

>>Also did you update your boot loader to reflect the new kernel?

>> ----- Original Message -----

>>From: Ron Marriage <marriage at seidata.com

>>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca

>>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:08 PM

>>Subject: Mandrake 8.1 distro

>>> Downloaded a new kernel from kernel.org and installed it.

>>>kernel 2.4.17

>>>Did, make mrproper, make config, make dep, make bzImage,

>>>make modules, make modules install.

>>>I copied /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to

>>>/boot/vmlinuz

>>>I copied the speakup map to /boot

>>>Didn't get any errors durring any steps.

>>> I rebooted and the system started talking but ended with

>>> unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent

>>>kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06

>>> anyone have a suggestion

>>>Thanks

>>>Ron


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