Bootloader and another Problem

Martin Tanzer m.tanzer at x509.at
Tue Apr 19 19:17:38 CEST 2005


o Removing the tune2fs command solved the problem of errors on tty0.
Thanks a lot!
o I had no luck with the GRUB patch - I still struggle with the wrong
root partition. More reports about that will follow.

martin

Thomas Lange wrote:

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