Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO A1.19

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

Default installer that came with 1.19 (r752, I think).

I don't know if this is any help at all but just in case it is.
Running in debug mode I see:
"MdlBootMngr.Get_Initrd_List.99: Looking for initrds in /mnt/sda1/boot"
A quick listing of /mnt/sda1/boot reveals no files.

Manually 'cp /mnt/source/isolinux/initrd.img /mnt/target/boot/initrd' works. Once
the initrd image is in-place, lilo installs correctly to mbr and bootsector. Grub
also installs correctly to mbr, and since installing grub to bootsector is highly
suggested against doing, I would say that the bootloader installation seems to be
working correctly. As M0E has already suggested, we just need to figure out why
initrd is not being copied over correctly (if at all).

Cheers, newt

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Monday, August 31, 2009, 3:10:54 PM, M0E wrote:

ML> LILO keeps failing because we have an empty initrd in the target.
ML> I'm not sure how or why this is happening, but doing ls -al
ML> /mnt/target/boot clearly shows a 0 size for the initrd file. The 0
ML> initrd will report a "empty map section" error on the installer,
ML> according to google, LILO produces this error when it tries to access
ML> a referenced file with a 0 sector size.