F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Feb 25 05:33:47 UTC 2008


Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:40:02AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> 1. The 32-bit F8 rescue CD does not work on 64-bit systems.
> 
> You will end with a 32-bit kernel and 64-bit userspace
> (if you will try to execute things from your system).

Says "Exec format error" or similar. A very popular message, the first 
hit was on Windows.


> This is not a winning combination.  The other way around
> it might work.  Never tried.
> 
>> 5. Once booting to runlevel 5, I cannot switch to other consoles using 
>> control-alt-Fn. This _might_ be partly because of something that I've 
>> done, but if it's not I'm really not happy.
> 
> Ah, that one.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434669
> A keyboard at this moment is not very healthy.

One of those at least. I guess it will be fixed RSN, it must bug a lot 
of people.

I did another "yum upgrade" and got another 100 Mbytes or so.



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John

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