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Lindsay Haisley posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:48:43 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 11:50 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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>> This problem box has been running Gentoo since 2004, but my work and |
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>> priorities on my time have changed over the years and it's probably |
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>> time to move on. |
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> To be a bit more precise here, I'm actively working on replacing this |
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> box, and will be running a Linux distribution on it other than Gentoo. |
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> But in the meantime, I do need to solve the problem about which I |
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> posted. |
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I appreciate that you /have/ decided to ultimately switch, and obviously |
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believe it best or I'd have not recommend it. |
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I also appreciate that you need a solution for now. That's what I suspect |
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I may have provided (at least to a point) further down that post, which |
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you may not have read given the order. |
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I was hoping to read all these replies and have you tell me whether I was |
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on the right track or not, answering the question about initrd/initramfs |
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so we could go from there if need be. However, I don't see that answer, |
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which suggests you didn't read that far down my post, for which I can't |
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really blame you. |
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But you can always go back and do it now... =:^) |
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Briefly repeating so you can see if it's worth your trouble going back to |
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get the details. |
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If the kernel could not load its initial root, be that initr* or the real- |
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root, it'd fail to load any userspace at all as it couldn't get to it, |
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panicking instead when it couldn't get to a root at all. (I know this |
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from experience.) |
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Thus, that it's getting even a /limited/ userspace indicates it's getting |
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to it's initial root. That's a very significant point. |
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The question from there is whether that limited userspace is loading from |
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the initrd/initramfs if you have one, indicating it's not successfully |
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doing the initial real-root mount and pivot-root from the initr*, taking |
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you down one path toward a solution (missing or incorrect drivers in the |
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initr* or wrong initrd), or whether it's loading the real-root (as just |
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getting to userspace at all indicates if you don't have an initr*), thus |
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indicating that it has the necessary drivers (both pata and fs) to do so, |
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and the problem is later, with the fsck or remount, taking you down a |
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different path toward a solution (userspace issue). |
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If that sounds useful, check the earlier post for more. If it doesn't, |
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don't bother, as that's what I was detailing in the earlier post. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |