[Wizard] ubuntu on my wizard

[Tim Bowden]

On Apr 2, 2005 4:15 PM, David Basden <davidb-0624 at rcpt.to> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:35:56PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > I have a problem with my wizard and would like some help please.  I
> > need a debian based distro on it.  It needs to be less than 25 yrs
> > old, so there goes woody.  It needs to have timely security updates,
> > so there goes sarge and sid.  For better or worse, I have selected
> > ubuntu.
> 
> I recently installed sarge on a p75 laptop with ~ 16M of memory. It
> was all ugly. Debian used to be so good at minimal installs :-(.
> 

Maybe woody is the last 'big' distro to install on small spec pc's.
Still I guess its vintage is about that of rh8 which still ran on my
486 without a problem (sans gui).  I have two other wizards with woody
that had no problem going on.  sigh.  Bigger footprint is the price of
progress I suppose.

> > I put the hdd in a celeron based pc and loaded ubuntu.  Rebooted and
> > all was fine.  I put the hdd back in the wizard and got the following:
> >
> > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
> > shared objects file: No such file or directory
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> >
> > I put the hdd back in the celeron system and all worked well again.
> 
> I'm assuming it's printing out more than that, but is going to be
> a pain to type out.

Only other output was the grub messages before it.  Everything looked
fine till the shell error.

> 
> Check to see that the kernel is detecting the IDE drive geometries the
> same on both machines (if the boot is getting that far). This is
> the IDE messages from a working 2.6 kernel booting on Adrian's wizard:

No, it's not getting that far.

<snip>

> Also see if it's running out of room creating ramdisks if it's using
> initrd.

I'll look into it.

> 
> If that all looks right, try booting with init=/bin/sh or something to
> see if you can get a shell and look around to see if everything looks
> as it should.

No luck. No shell.

> 
> It's probably going to be a good idea to compile a custom kernel anyhow.
> I still have the .deb around for a (possibly insecure) 2.6.8 wizard
> kernel if it would help.

That would be great if you could put it up somewhere.  The poor old
wizards need all the help they can get.

> 
> > Then, in a stroke of pure genius while swapping the hdd between the
> > celeron and wizard boxes, I let the magic smoke out of the hdd.  I
> > purchased another hdd this morning, reloaded ubuntu and got the same
> > result.
> 
> *wince*

I did more than wince.

> 
> HTH,
>

Yes, it has.  Thankyou.

Regards,
Tim Bowden