From: "John McCaskey" <jmccaskey1@qwest.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 1.0_rc3 -> 1.0_rc4-pre2 update
Date: Mon Jan 29 23:18:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003201c08a82$197edd20$0400000a@jamiv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A762EE9.8BB7BA10@gottinger.de
Can someone please email me the replacement initdisk.gz I downloaded the bad
iso last night, and just got on the mailing list today and I missed the
original email with it attached, and I don't really want to redownload it
all tonight so I'd love if one of you could email it ;) Thanks.
John McCaskey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@t-online.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 1.0_rc3 -> 1.0_rc4-pre2 update
> smk_va@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > >
> > > For those who have already downloaded. I attached a modified
> > > initdisk.gz to that
> > > mail.
> > > Just dd the bootgrub.img from the cd (/images) to a floppy,
> > > mount that floppy and
> > > replace
> > > initdisk.gz in the /boot subdir of the floppy whith the one attached.
> > > This includes a patched linuxrc that does not test if the cd
> > > is a valid gentoo-cd.
> > >
> >
> > Achim, thanks for the update. I got through most of the install and was
> > hoping to report success, but my boot partition was corrupted on reboot
so
> > the boot process halts on a kernel panic. Since this seems to mean I'll
be
> > starting over (I will save my modifications in /etc), I'm going to get
the
> > updated rc4_pre2. Achim and Daniel, could you make sure that the update
> > includes Achim's new initdisk.gz (the images folder in rc4_pre2 seems
not to
> > have been updated, so I'm wondering if the ISO has).
> >
>
> The bootimage works normaly. The only thing I changed was, that I
commented out
> the test in the linuxrc program,
> that tries to read a file called version on the cd. This file did not
exist in
> the first iso. Now it is in there. So there is
> definately no need to download 640MB again. Why don't you use the bootcd
to
> restore your boot partition? e2fsck and reiserfsck are included.
>
> achim~
>
> >
> > Thanks, Murthy
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-30 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-29 10:08 [gentoo-dev] 1.0_rc3 -> 1.0_rc4-pre2 update drobbins
2001-01-29 10:46 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-29 20:14 ` smk_va
2001-01-29 20:31 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-29 23:18 ` John McCaskey [this message]
2001-01-29 20:37 ` Frank Schnieder
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