Salix-live 13.0.2 RC2

[toothandnail]

Boot never completes on that box

I'm heavy interresting in knowing what happens. If you could help it could be great. I suspect some graphical problem since it hangs just aftet the keyboard loading, which is quite the last thing done before loading Xorg.

Following Akuna's suggestoin, I've cleaned up the initial display. This time, I tried starting the NAS box in text mode. After the keyboard load, it starts the HAL daemon, at which point everything stopped for a while.

I left it for a few minutes, then went back in and found that it was sitting at a login prompt.

I then tried a normal graphical start. This time, it got past the HAL daemon load, then came up with an error in rc.live as below:

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line 77 7089 bus error /sbin/ldconfig

I left it alone for a few minutes, and when I checked back, it was sitting at the desktop.

I think it was searching for hard drives (and as I said, at the moment, there are no drives of any sort in the box - just the USB stick it was booting from. I'll have a look at rc.live to see what it is doing, but I think the delay was just while it tried to find other devices.

It was a bit slow booting from the NAS box, but the T61 is a 2GHz Core2Duo, while the NAS box is an AMD Sempron 140 (single core, 2.7 GHz), so that may explain most of the difference.

I'll test it again once I've got at least the system drive mounted in the NAS, see if it makes a difference to the boot speed.

BTW, while I remember. While watching the startup, I noticed that it loads the US keyboard layout, then, a few seconds later, loads the UK key map. A bit strange....

Paul.

[JRD]

BTW, while I remember. While watching the startup, I noticed that it loads the US keyboard layout, then, a few seconds later, loads the UK key map. A bit strange....

Yes fixed in svn.

HAL is also (re)started twice : fixed in svn too.

Maybe no harddrive make hal go crazy and hang for a moment...

[toothandnail]

BTW, while I remember. While watching the startup, I noticed that it loads the US keyboard layout, then, a few seconds later, loads the UK key map. A bit strange....

Yes fixed in svn.

HAL is also (re)started twice : fixed in svn too.

Maybe no harddrive make hal go crazy and hang for a moment...

Maybe. Or maybe something else - it looks as though the motherboard in that machine has died. Just what I needed. Its under waranty, but the orginal packaging was destroyed (water damage) so I may not even be able to make a warranty claim.

When I went back to check things, no video, couldn't change back to any of the other machines on the KVM, and so far, all I get is the power supply and fans spinning up.

Paul.

[gapan]

Its under waranty, but the orginal packaging was destroyed (water damage) so I may not even be able to make a warranty claim.

That shouldn't matter. You have a warranty for your motherboard, not its packaging.

[linus72]

Gapan or someone

Please tell me how to use kernelive??
what is procedure to use kernelive?

I have kernelive and linux-2.6.29.6 in /usr/src
but cant get it to make a kernel patched with aufs,etc

Please help
There is no info on this??

Thanks

[linus72]

this is what I mean

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root[kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp]# slkbuild -X
config-2.6.29.6-smp.live found in current directory
config-2.6.29.6-smp.live.patch found in current directory
aufs2-standalone-2.6.29.tgz found in current directory
squashfs3.4.tgz found in current directory
lzma457.tgz found in current directory
sqlzma2k-3.4.patch found in current directory
sqlzma.h found in current directory
sqmagic.h found in current directory
modules.conf found in current directory
Makefile found in current directory
build-kernelive.sh has been created
tar -xf aufs2-standalone-2.6.29.tgz
tar -xf squashfs3.4.tgz
tar -xf lzma457.tgz
########################################
Cloning /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6...
########################################
Makefile:529: /usr/src/kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp/src/linuxsrc/arch/i486/Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp/src/linuxsrc/arch/i486/Makefile'.  Stop.
root[kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp]# 

I'm lost....

[linus72]

in the above post I got kernel source from /usr/src of RC2 salix livecd

if I use slack's source I get

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root[kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp]# slkbuild -X
config-2.6.29.6-smp.live found in current directory
config-2.6.29.6-smp.live.patch found in current directory
aufs2-standalone-2.6.29.tgz found in current directory
squashfs3.4.tgz found in current directory
lzma457.tgz found in current directory
sqlzma2k-3.4.patch found in current directory
sqlzma.h found in current directory
sqmagic.h found in current directory
modules.conf found in current directory
Makefile found in current directory
build-kernelive.sh has been created
tar -xf aufs2-standalone-2.6.29.tgz
tar -xf squashfs3.4.tgz
tar -xf lzma457.tgz
########################################
Cloning /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6...
########################################
Makefile:529: /usr/src/kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp/src/linuxsrc/arch/i486/Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp/src/linuxsrc/arch/i486/Makefile'.  Stop.
root[kernelive-2.6.29.6.smp]# 

do I have to compile it first?

I thought the slackbuild did everything??

Please help

EDIT:
OK I gotta compile kernel first
then run slkbuild from in kernelive folder right??

I'm trying to learn kernel compiling and everything I read says somethin totally different...

Also, why doesn't salix live rc2 have aufs modules?
how does it boot with no aufs in /lib/modules/kernel??

sorry if I dsound so ignorant

[Akuna]

JRD is our kernelive specialist, however I believe he is a bit overwhelmed with work at the moment. As soon as he can, I'm sure he will pipe in.

[linus72]

thanks akuna

sorry for posting here
I will start new thread about doing kernelive