-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-01-19 at 14:37 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
I did think of that, but decided it couldn't be - what would be the point? New hardware support?
That his "SIS761 chipset" does not work during install.
Still, replacing the installation kernel is only a matter of creating an ISO-image of CD1, mounting it, replacing the kernel, then burning a new CD.
How do you extract the boot image from a CD? The boot image has to be given to mkisofs to create a new bootable CD/DVD from the recreated dvd tree. There is no kernel image in /dvd/boot, it must instead reside inside /dvd/boot/rescue or equivalent file. This file is a gziped file, which when expanded is detected as "Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data". When mounted (mount -o loop rescue ./mnt/) the filesystem appears: cer@nimrodel:~/tmp/rescueboot/mnt> du -sh * 3.7M bin 1.0K boot <--- 260K dev 1.5M etc 1.0K home 11M lib 3.0K media 1.0K mnt 151K opt 1.0K proc 11K root 8.3M sbin 1.0K sys 1.0K tmp 23M usr 39K var But notice that the "boot" directory is empty! So the kernel image has got to be somewhere else. Where? How? Perhaps they are in "/dvd/boot/root": cer@nimrodel:/dvd/boot> file root root.fonts root: Linux Compressed ROM File System data, little endian size 64507904 version #2 sorted_dirs CRC 0x36fda5d3, edition 0, 39127 blocks, 6971 files root.fonts: gzip compressed data, was "root.fonts 32161", from Unix, max compression This "root" file contains: 4.1M bin 512 boot <-- 3.4M etc 13M lib 307K opt 17K root 5.9M sbin 118M usr 32K var Again, no kernel images. I think they are in /dvd/boot/loader/linux: linux: Linux/x86 Kernel, Setup Version 0x203, bzImage, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x6802, Normal VGA But, how is/are it loaded during boot? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDz7ZItTMYHG2NR9URAo0KAJoCcrhbQ27zLLXMJDzn45xrsHDkJwCfUcDY w/QZM0TH1OEe3HQd+UY4kMk= =bGum -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----