[Nottingham] Future events (And 2.6-test5 problems)

[Philip Scott]

Greetings,

> Maybe:
> (If Graeme has those 6 PC's) ready we could have fun
> with a Beowulf cluster for one of them

I think thats a great idea! Lets see how long it takes to compile a kernel on 
our cluster 8*) I'm definatly up for that, heck, I'll even add my pc to the 
list if it will make things more interesting.

PS - I vote for this in january. Primarily because I'll be here then, 
university will be stealing me away from oh to many LUG meets :)

PPS - Just one thought about mondays, that is the evening when 
<plug>Nottingham Microcomputer Club meets at sherwood community centre</plug> 
I suppose being only once a month I would still come to the lug meetings, but 
it doesn't make that much sense to 'compete' for that time, after all, it's 
the same sort of people that go to both. But I don't really mind, more of an 
observation than an objection.

PPPS - I'm trying to get 2.6-test5 to work proplerly, and I can't for the life 
of me get it to understand my root partition. Every time I boot it, I get 
'Kernel panic unable to mount root fs'. I've tried with root= all manner of 
things (including some obscure numeric values I found somewhere on a debian 
mailing list archive that correspond, somehow, to device names - anyone have 
any ideas?). I've even taken out my RAID card, so there's just my ide 
chipset, and it is detected proplerly by the kernel, there are messages to 
the effect of
hda: ibm whassname superdrive
hdc: AOPEN CD/RW

I think the problem may be either something to do with the mystical 'sys' 
directory I am supposed to have (I have made one on my root, but done nothing 
more than that) and perhaps the fact that my root filing system is XFS (yes, 
I remembered to compile it in, although I forgot the first time ;)

Any ideas anyone?

Kind regards,
	Philip