[Sussex] Success!

[Dominic Clay]

Steve,

The compile went well, but when I reboot the new version (2.40) says:

'Failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major3, errno=2'
'VFS Cannot open root device 386 or 03:06'
'please append a correct root= boot option'

What this all about :)

Dominic


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dobson [mailto:SDobson at manh.com] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 15:56
To: 'sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk'
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Success!


Dom

On 29 November 2002 at 10:44 Dominic Clay wrote:
> You should be very proud! :)

I am.
 
> Thanks to the good communication last night, I have
> successfully dual booted this damn laptop all on my lonesome :D

I've said this before and I'll say it again: "Unix IS a user- friendly
operating system; it just chooses it's friends carefully" :-)
 
> I installed WinXP, booted to a rescue prompt with RH7 install
> CD.

I think this just goes to show how compatible the distros are. Linux is
Linux - the distro's are just the icing - you get what you inversely pay for
:-)

> Mounted the / partition, then did a chroot to this partition. I then 
> added a section to lilo.conf for hda1 called it winxp.  I added the 
> menu thingy which was commented out at the top of lilo.conf (bit of a 
> panic before I spotted this as it just rebooted into Linux without 
> offering me a chance to choose :P) and Bob is your mother's brother!

Good job.

> Did I do the right things?

I'm a great believer in "If it works for you then it must be right".

On  29 November 2002 at 10:55 Geoff Teale wrote:
> On 29 November 2002 at 10:44 Dominic Clay wrote:
> > So, what do I do now to make it a pretty 'windowy', 'outlooky' type 
> > environment?
> 
> You're going to need to install and configire XFree86, then a decent
window
> manager (Your choice really.. but KDE is best for doing everything and 
> wiping your bum afterwards, GNome is very purdy...).  This shouldn't 
> take long on your nice big link at work.
> 
> BTW, if you ever need access to a nice big pipe to pull things over 
> when you're outside work.  Give me a shout, I have ADSL and plenty of 
> spare
ports
> on my hub and I'm only a 2 minute walk from you.

Geoff is correct but I would add the following words.  XFree86 can (esp on
the older versions) be difficult to configure.  The new version is much,
much 
easier.  Unfortunally XFree86 4.2 didn't make it into woody (the current
version of Debian, and the one you're running.  So if you want this you'll
have to compile it yourself.

Before doing this you'll need the latest version of the Linux kernel.  First
pull it from ftp.kernel.org and place the bzip2ed tar ball in /usr/src.
Uncompress it: (tar -xvfj linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 or whatever).  Copy the
kernel config (.config) file from the linux-2.2 dir, cd into the new
directory and run:
   # make oldconfig
Hit return when it stops and prompts you, the
  # make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install Go get
a cup of tea/coffee/booze. Go get another one. When finished copy the kernel
to the boot area (cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/Linux-2.4) and an entry to
/etc/lilo.conf [if you can add the winxp you'll figure out the entry from
the one I created for Linux-2.2] and then run lilo to finish the install.

If that kernel works then go back to the build directory and start trying to
work out the graphics options.  There is loads of help available in 
the Documents directory.

If you get stuck: Geoff is not far away and I gave you my card with my 
mobil number on it (there's always the list).  If you want we could meet up
this Sunday [I've got to drive to NY again].

Steve

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