Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Ok I did a test install today as well....

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:35, Eric Sandall wrote:

> LILO:  Should we have LILO default to overwrite the MBR for the system
> rather than just the disk?  It's fairly useless (IMO) to have it write to
> the disk as most people will want it to write to the MBR as normal boot
> loaders do, this way it is effective.  I know we have this "documented" on
> the wiki, but I would like a sane (subjective) default.

Just a long as it is noted somewhere to change it if needed.  I have
need of it both ways.

> Network: I setup the network from the installer, but it did not save the
> information to /etc/sysconfig/network, I only have 'lo.dev' in there, but
> it did install dhcpcd as I asked.

Same here.

> Kernel: There is no kernel configuration anymore? I guess this is actually
> a good idea, that way the user will have a working kernel at boot so that
> they can _then_ play with what to compile in, rather than from the ISO and
> if they get it wrong don't have a bootable system.  Also, 2.4.21 has just
> been released with support for the AMD Opteron.  ;)

One problem here.  I have an all scsi system and guess what the scsi
drivers are not built into the kernel and there is not initrd that has
them so I cannot just reboot the system and have it come up.  I had to
reboot the system with the install cd and change the root and then
continue booting to be able to get it to where I could recompile the
kernel with the scsi driver I needed in the kernel.  So either an initrd
matching the kernel needs to be supplied, or a way to recompile the
kernel before rebooting needs to be available.  

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook