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Hi Kumba, |
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on Thursday, 2007-05-17 at 02:40:32, you wrote: |
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> Even though I've not messed with my RaQ2 in ages, that is indeed an |
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> odd error from the old cobalt ROM. What kind of hard drive do you |
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> have?, maybe some bunk data is stored in the MBR that's throwing the |
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> bootloader off? IMHO, the old bootloader/ROM is a flaky, hunk of |
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> garbage anyways. You can always try flashing colo directly to the ROM |
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> chip. Just keep it on an UPS for safety, and colo itself should be |
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> more than stable enough to handle that. |
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Thanks for the encouragement---I had been too chicken to try it yet as |
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the manual said to make sure the chainloading version works first. |
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Actually I even have a flasher but I'd have to install Windows for it in |
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case it screwed my flash chip, so... :) |
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Anyway, I tried and it worked flawlessley in a matter of seconds. Kudos |
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to Colonel Panic! It's still dropping me to the boot menu to load the |
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kernel by hand but I think that has got to do with my default.colo file, |
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have to check it once my new kernel compile has finished. |
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> Your udev errors, what do they entail? I've been keeping an eye out for |
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> people running 2.6.17 kernels and having problems with userland. I'm |
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> curious to know what glibc revision you have merged. I've got a nagging |
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> suspicion we may be about to hit into an upgrade path issue that i ran into |
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> on my Octane, but have yet to ascertain whether it was specific to me or |
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> not. |
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The error message says: |
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| * Mounting /dev for udev ...[ oops ] |
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| * The "mount" command failed with error: |
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| wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on udev, |
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| missing codepage or other error |
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| In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |
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| dmesg | tail or so |
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| * Since this is a critical task, startup cannot continue. |
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My glibc is 2.3.6-r4, it's all still the original 2007.0 install image |
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from redhatter. But I'm quite sure that's not the problem, this looks |
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pretty much like a problem I had on a HPPA box a while ago. I had |
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disabled support for hotplug devices in the kernel since it's a server |
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and I thought I didn't need it. Afterwards, udevd wouldn't start any |
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more, complaining about some missing netlink functionality, I don't |
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remember exactly what it was. |
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On the Qube I should have dumped the config from the netbooted |
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installation kernel but went with "make cobal_defconfig" first, which I |
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found later has no hotplug support either. So I'm pretty confident it |
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will work once I have the new kernel compiled (it's going through the |
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whole 2h procedure right now because I forgot to set the clock last time |
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8-]). I'll post my result when I have any. |
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cheers! |
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Matthias |
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