Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:49:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Problem with kernel upgrading |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> AV> "If" bit can be safely snipped. linuxconf is a pile of junk and relying > AV> on it for anything other than eventual fsckup is insanity. Sad that it has > AV> "linux" in name... > > LinuxConf can be useful sometimes. If you want to show that Linux also can be > configured via point-and-click (of course you need to have good backup of all > configuration files or sometimes even whole system before stating the beast :-)
Umm... I hope that you do not use it for such purposes - at least not on Fridays. Few things are more pissing off than sitting in the office during the weekend and cleaning the shit left by I'm luser-friendly Acme Configurator(tm). You don't need to understand WTF you are doing; as the matter of fact I won't let yo Segmentation fault kind of animal. And since it _does_ produce total fsckups you have to check what did it produce anyway - otherwise you may notice that something is wrong a couple of weeks later.
> >> > request-module[ide-disk]:Root fs not mounted > > AV> == ide-disk is not in the kernel, even if you have it as module it's > AV> unlikely to do you any good since you have no filesystems mounted, so > AV> there's nowhere to fetch the module from and ... > > initrd ? Which would be a root fs in that case.
> >> > hda: driver not present > >> > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05 ... and initrd is 01:FA. He has hda5 as root.
> P.S. Do you have ideas why swapon/swapoff/dd failed ? It's not so big problem > to me (I can add format in Windows98 bootup script :-) but the whole thing > looks like swapoff does not do right thing and it can be dangerous.
Could you check 2.3.39 or later?
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