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[George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:16:45 -0500
Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:

> 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.

I don't think are new either and I wouldn't say they are gating to
release a new iso either.  There are bigger problems with such an old
stable grimoire on the old iso.


> 
> > 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.
> 

Guess I don't know what is the old BS about this.

George
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