Re: was-Won't boot

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hello David

Am 16-Aug-02 schrieb David Jones:

> Hi John, (and anyone who can help)
> #On 15-Aug-02, you wrote:#
> #>I asked about PFS and ASAIR it is not supported, 
> I have successfully installed and booted from a PFS partition. The FFS
> partition seemed to be getting corrupted regularily causing my system
> to stop booting. It wasn't obvious the files had become corrupted but
> they wouldn't work. When the boot files were replaced by the
> originals off CD things started to work again. With no change to the
> miggy side.
> #>I use an FFS partition for my boot files and I can also access it
> from within#
> #linux after booting, so its handy for transferring files from miggy#
> #to linux and back. 
> I also have a FFS partition as well for copying to and from miggy.
> #>I am booting with version 2.4.4 of the kernel.#
> ##The same as me. 
> #>If you have the time probably installing just the bare minimum and#
> #>then getting everything via the net with apt would be the best way
> to#
> #>go, that would take quite a bit of time but would need less#
> #>re-configuration I would think.#
> ##I now have a full Woody set of CD's (8 disks) so can install the
> software from these.
> I have partly installed Woody (the basic sytem) but have a couple of
> problems. On installation I was informed my hardware clock date was
> 1902. I didn't know how to change this, so now when I use dselect to
> install software I get error messages saying the date contained in
> the deb is in the future. Do you know how I can amend the date? The
> installed packages seem to work but I need to get this date thing
> right.

Huh? I thought the system gets the time from the internal clock (which I don't
think is damaged otherwise you would experience problems on the AmigaOS side
too)? Do you have
any exotic equipment where the battery clock sits on some kind of memory card
or something?

> Also on my old Debian 2.2r3 installation I had to initially copy a
> system map2.4.4 into /boot and some libs (containing the kernal
> modules) into libs. I have done this but on boot up the system can't
> find the modules.dep and seems to be looking in libs/modudles/2.2.10
> instead of libs/modules/2.4.4.
> I'm not sure what needs to be done here as just renaming the dir
> doesn't seem to work.

If you're running a 2.4.x kernel, it may be easiest to

apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-apus from stable (woody)

or kernel.image-2.4.18-apus from unstable, as Michel thankfully pointed
out in "Re: Which version of kernel 2.4.17-apus
in in woody?" This will set everything right and will generate the correct
symlinks the system needs!

> Any further info I might find useful regarding getting woody working
> ok would be great. I want to get these niggly problems sorted before
> moving on to XFree4 and a full software installation.

Sorry, don't know anything about the other issues above.

-- 
Regards,
Andi