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

Thu Apr 27 15:47:51 EDT 2006

Can you PXE boot this device?

I know it can be a pain to set up, but I am quite sure that fedora
supports a network install from a pxe boot image.

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:44 -0400, kyle victor wrote:

> ok after doing some digging i can not boot this device from usb
> 
> only floppy or Hard drive
> 
> so i broke down and bought a PCMCIA floppy of ebay for this device today
> 
> as soon as i have it i will do a network install, should be all it needs
> 
> the bummer is i will not get the drive in time to win the bet
> 
> i know i will get Core 3 to run on this thing, but not by May 1
> 
> going to lose a bet to a winders admin
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/27/06, kyle victor <computerguy.kyle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> > Kyle Victor MCSA/MCSE/Linux +/RHCT
> >
> > visit Kyle's website at:
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> >
> 
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