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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 21, George Sherwood [pilot AT beernabeer.com] wrote:
> Completed update to stable-0.8 with no major problems.
> 
> 1.  Not part of the iso, but to a new user might seem that way.  After
> updating to stable-0.8 on the next reboot the system fails to boot with
> grub due to the menu.1st having entries that won't work on defaults.
> The original system is installed with:
> 
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19.5 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> 
> After a sorcery rebuild the new menu.1st looks like:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20.3 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791
> 
> Of course the file is not found and the boot fails.  On my test system
> the vga=791 causes a problem also.  Of course both these can be fixed
> during spell configuration, but I am not sure a new user will know what
> to change all the time.  I haven't tried lilo so not sure how that
> works.

These aren't new AFAIK.

> 2.  After my initial reboot I installed openssh so I could scp
> my /var/spool/sorcery directory over from another machine.  Too slow
> here to download it all again.  That worked fine, but after the
> rebuild, I got an error about portmap not configured and that
> networking was not started and sshd wouldn't start again either.
> Casting portmap solved that problem.

Sounds like the same old BS about remote_fs provider getting mangled
somewhere.

> On the next reboot I see these errors, but everything seems to work:
> 
> eth0: link up
> netmask: Host name lookup failure
> SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
> 
> mountnetwork: success
> smgl-default-remote-fs: smgl-default-remote-fs: not configured as
> provider of remote_fs
> 
> I know most of these errors are easily solvable, but just trying to
> make the installation process smoother.

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