Ok, I've read the manuals I can find and tried a bunch of different options, but I still seem to be failing. I have a successful Knoppix install on a hard drive which I then apt-get upgraded to the latest Testing / Unstable packages using apt-pinning (as of about 2 weeks ago). So, it's time to do a Linux installation on another computer on the network, so I thought it'd be nice to skip the update process after installing Knoppix and just copy the installation from the other computer.
So, I tar'ed the files off the Knoppix computer, onto the "file server" on the network. Then I wiped out the hard drive on the computer waiting for a Linux installation, partitioned it, ran mke2fs, tune2fs -j, etc. Booting off a Knoppix cd, I copied everything onto the new computer, edited /etc/fstab and /etc/modules to reflect the different hardware and then ran "lilo -C <new_root>/etc/lilo.conf -r path/to/new_root". So far everything seemed to be going smoothly. However, after rebooting to try the new installation, I get the lilo prompt where I can successfully choose from four kernels - 3 are ones I compiled on the machine installed from Knoppix cd, 1 is the kernel that came on the Knoppix cd during installation. Whenever I try one of the 3 custom compiled kernels, it makes it to the line "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" and then freezes. If I try the kernel from the Knoppix installation, I can see it detect the hard drives and USB ports, but then it hangs with a kernel panic, saying "no init found." Does anyone see what I'm missing or have any suggestions for a way to get this machine running? TIA, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Linux: transforms your microcomputer in a workstation. Windows NT: transforms your workstation in a microcomputer.
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