Bootloader and another Problem

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Tue Apr 19 11:10:22 CEST 2005


>>>>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:49:13 +0000, Martin Tanzer <m.tanzer at x509.at> said:

    > 1.) When the installation is finished, on tty0 strange errormessages
    > show up and keep running - I am not able to read them. The keyboard
    > freezes. Watching the installation process on annother terminal with
    > tail -f /tmp/fai/* works fine - after the installation it is possible to
    > switch back on tty0 and enter a shell. I  have tested this behavior on
    > two different client machines.
Remove the tune2fs command in /fai/scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc and tell me
if this will help. Some small string from the error message would
help us to find the error.


    > 2.) After installation grub is misconfigured. When a /boot partition is
    > used, root is set to hd0,1 instead of hd0,0. Without a /boot partition
    > grub looks for (hd0.0)/<kernel>, which is not present there. Switching
    > from GRUB to LILO works fine.
Known bug. Have a look at this URL for a small patch.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai/20050414.144400/167420


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regards Thomas



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