[GRLUG] install of Core 3 on a Libretto 110CT

[kyle victor]

the device does not have a usb, but the docking station does, i will
look to see if i can boot usb, but i am not sure if the BIOS will let
me, i will look

but thanks for the manual ramdisk config idea, i will dig into it



On 4/27/06, Rick Vargo <rick at vargo.org> wrote:
> It is likely the ramdisk is causing the kernel panic.  It is probably
> trying to load something not present at boot.  Try creating the ram disk
> by hand on your setup machine(mkinitrd or mkinitramfs depending on
> kernel, distro, etc) with only basic drivers (see man pages for
> details).  Does this machine have a USB port?  If so, you may want to
> make a thumb drive boot disk and then do a network install...  It may be
> easier.
>
> Rick
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 11:56 -0400, kyle victor wrote:
> > ok closer
> >
> > i pulled the drive back out, and put it into the laptop i did the install from
> >
> > i was able to force the i586 kernel and the i386 glibc rpms
> >
> > then put the drive back into the libretto
> >
> > i get beyond the point it had been rebooting at, (the ram disk init)
> >
> > but now i get a panic
> >
> > i have tried to pass the ide=reverse as a boot option after doing some
> > google work
> >
> > about 4 to 8 lines scroll off the top of the screen so i do not know
> > what they say, but the lines i can read are following:
> >
> > ds: 007b es: 007b  ss:0068
> > Process init (pid: 1, threadinfo=C106F00 TASK-C1073730)
> > Stack: c30459f8 c3044a44 c3045900 000001a4 c3045a5c c1f82200 00000000 00000000
> >            c3043c62 c114ec00 c1f82200 c1ed1400 c307ccde c1eef940
> > c1f82400 00000000
> >            c307c5a0 00000001 c106fe9c c1f83610 c1f83600 00000001
> > 00000000 00000000
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c3043c62>] journal_flush+0x3ac/0x66f [jbd]
> > [<c307ccde>] ext3_mark_recorvery_complete+0x21/0x59 [ext3]
> > [<c307c5a0>] ext3_fill_super+0x874/0x968 [ext3]
> > [<c016f7e4>] get_sb_bdev+0xe0/0x11c
> > [<c01c93fb>] selinux_sb_copy_data+0x33/0x157
> > [<c307d4b1>] ext_get_sb+0xe/0x11 [ext3]
> > [<c307bd2c>] ext3_fill_super+0x0/0x968 [ext3]
> > [<c016f9ad>] do_kern_mount+0x8a/0x13a
> > [<c018b440>] do_new_mount+0x61/0x90
> > [<c018bf99>] do_mount+0x16a/0x182
> > [<c01491c9>] __alloc_pages+0xb3/0x295
> > [<c01e0de6>] direct_strncpy_from_user+0x3e/0x5d
> > [<c018c474>] sys_mount+0x121/0x1f9
> > [<c030bf47>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > code: 83 78 01 00 00 00 00 00 85 f6 75 29 68 5c 04 c3 68 a4 01 00 00 68 00
> >   59 04 c3 68 44 4a 04 c3 68 f8 59 04 c3 e8 4c 13 0e fd <0f> 0b a4 01
> > 00 59 04 c3
> >   83 c4 14 39 bb 90 01 00 00 75 68 81 7b
> >   <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init!
> >
> > beside ide=reverse i have tried
> > boot options
> > apm=off acpi=off ide=nodma nousb nopsmcia noapic nofb
> >
> > any ideas?
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