[Bdi4emc-help] bdi 4.01 crash

[Paul]

Hi Andreas

There was never a 4.01 released in to the wild, so I assume you must be using 
4.51..

On Monday 16 April 2007 18:03, Andreas Zippel wrote:
> i tried to install from BDI-CD downloaded from BDIEMC.
> The CD boots correctly and the installation (using only the defaults)
> runs till the post installation.
> Then the X window crashes due to an anaconda problem/bug.
> Since my window is only a small one, i am not able to see the reason on
> the resulting text window.

Is this running the text interface (blue background, no GUI) ?

If this is the case, I'm afraid you have hit on a known bug. Text mode usually 
kicks in with 64M of memory or less - If you can install more, 128M min, 256M 
prefered, the GUI installer should run.

> Booting afterwards show only GRUB and then nothing.
> Investigations with SUSE 8.2 rescue system shows that the menu.lst for
> grub is missing, hence grub is not installed properly.

Assuming grub installed, there *should* be an assortment of files 
in /boot/grub, menu.lst is probably missing, but there should be a 
device.map - This lists the drives anaconda detected, and grub-install would 
have used it to install it's self.

Assuming just menu.lst is missing, attached is a copy taken from one of my 
test boxes - If you can transfer it to the problem machine, all well and 
good. You may want to create a symlink, grub.conf pointing to menu.lst..

> I do not know what i should do to repair this, since i am not familiar
> with the sequence of installation. Does anybody on this list can help me ??

Check /boot for an initrd.im-2.6.20-rtai file - If this is missing, we will 
have to guide you through using mkinitrd...


Regards, Paul.

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# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default		0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout		5

# Pretty colours
# color cyan/blue white/blue
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1
#
# title		Linux
# root		(hd0,1)
# kernel	/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/hda3 ro splash=silent vga=788

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery mode) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16.20-rtai
root		(hd1,0)
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.16.20-rtai root=/dev/hda3 ro splash=silent vga=788 
initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.16.20-rtai
savedefault
boot

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16.20-rtai (recovery mode)
root		(hd1,0)
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.16.20-rtai root=/dev/hda3 ro splash=silent vga=788 single
initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.16.20-rtai
savedefault
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST