[arch-dev-public] "Don't-Panic" kernel-2.6.22 rc5git8 686 Isos available

James iphitus at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 19:30:55 EDT 2007


On 6/24/07, James <iphitus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > James schrieb:
> > > that's funny timing. I watched the hitchhikers movie just the other day.
> > >
> > > anyway, i broke it (i think). The duke installer didnt boot on my
> > > laptop. My laptop's only CD drive is firewire, are there firewire
> > > modules in the initrd?
> >
> > The installer happens completely in the initrd, so as long as isolinux
> > and your bios can load kernel and initrd, it should boot.
>
> we're still doing that?
>
> wierd. the duke installer just 'hung' and stopped. I'll try again and
> see what output i can get.

bah, my bad. Guess im just impatient. It hangs for ages ~15-20s after
loading network modules before continuing on and working fine. And it
detects the firewire drive fine.

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