Kernel problems with unionfs and Ubuntu gutsy

Tim Cutts tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Mon Feb 25 17:30:01 CET 2008


On 25 Feb 2008, at 2:17 pm, Thomas Lange wrote:

>>>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:58:09 +0000, Tim Cutts  
>>>>>> <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> said:
>
>>> I've successfully FAI installed HP Deskpro 7800 desktops, which have
>>> a Q35 chipset, using FAI 3.1.8 with a 2.6.24 kernel.  The kicker was
> I think there's a problem to use this approach (building a new kernel)
> with FAI 3.2.4. We now need unionfs, which is broken in some version
> of the kernel, so the kernel would work on the hardware.
>
> This approach works for you, because you are using FAI 3.1.8 which
> does not need unionfs.


Ah, progress.  Don't you just love it?  :-)

Tim


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