HDD with several PCLOS - Install to New Hardware: Kernel Panic

[melodie]

Hi,

My hard drive, SATA type, with several PCLinuxOS on it : Openbox, Education, and several Mini localized to French, has just been plugged into a new machine I put up a few days ago. Just before, it was on a Dell P4.

I bought a MotherBoard along with a proc to get a 64bits dual core with 4 GB memory. The MB is a MSI GF615M-P33 V2. All I get is a kernel panic when I want to boot PCLinuxOS. I tried with Openbox and with KDE Minime, same thing. I tried to boot to safeboot, and even to init 1 : there is nothing I could do, the boot stalls with kernel panic.

I still have an old Archlinux kernel 2.6.35, as of 2010), on a second SATA hard drive, switched to boot to it first in the BIOS, and booted to it : I got a problem with the major/minor related to the partition device with the normal boot entry, but could boot to fallback entry and login to X. So I wondered if something could be adviced to me, is there a way to get the hardware detection used in this case of figure, or do I have no other choice than repluging this drive to the former machine in order to boot the installed PCLinuxOS versions ?

Thanks for your help,
Mélodie

[djohnston]

Just a thought. It may be the SATA settings in BIOS. On two new motherboards I got recently, nothing would boot until I changed SATA from IDE to AHCI.

Take a good look at all the BIOS settings.

[Old-Polack]

melodie:

You need to boot a PCLinuxOS liveCD, then mount each PCLinuxOS / partition in turn, and from a chroot environment, create a new initrd image for each kernel, to account for the new hardware.

[melodie]

melodie:

You need to boot a PCLinuxOS liveCD, then mount each PCLinuxOS / partition in turn, and from a chroot environment, create a new initrd image for each kernel, to account for the new hardware.

Hi O-P, thanks, that seems easy. Could you remind me what the command line is with the "mkinitrd" command ?

djohnston, thanks too, I will look further in the BIOS, to check what the setup is.

[Old-Polack]

melodie:

You need to boot a PCLinuxOS liveCD, then mount each PCLinuxOS / partition in turn, and from a chroot environment, create a new initrd image for each kernel, to account for the new hardware.

Hi O-P, thanks, that seems easy. Could you remind me what the command line is with the "mkinitrd" command ?

djohnston, thanks too, I will look further in the BIOS, to check what the setup is.

Whole procedure is here;

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96077.msg818283.html#msg818283

[melodie]

O-P,  thank you very much ! I will try with one of the installs very soon and report back.

Regards,
Mélodie

[Village Idiot]

melodie:

You need to boot a PCLinuxOS liveCD, then mount each PCLinuxOS / partition in turn, and from a chroot environment, create a new initrd image for each kernel, to account for the new hardware.

Hi O-P, thanks, that seems easy. Could you remind me what the command line is with the "mkinitrd" command ?

djohnston, thanks too, I will look further in the BIOS, to check what the setup is.

Whole procedure is here;

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96077.msg818283.html#msg818283

Sorry to hijack. 

Great, concise method O-P. (as always)

Q: do you have a suggestion how one could copy tutes of yours such as this one to a offline file with the color intact? A simple way I mean. I always use an ordinary textfile to plonk in anything I find around the place, but the colorization would be nicer to read like it is on the forum.

[melodie]

Hi,

You could give a try to "Print to pdf" Firefox extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/printpdf/?src=api

[Village Idiot]

Hi,

You could give a try to "Print to pdf" Firefox extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/printpdf/?src=api

  Will try that. Thanks.

[Old-Polack]

melodie:

You need to boot a PCLinuxOS liveCD, then mount each PCLinuxOS / partition in turn, and from a chroot environment, create a new initrd image for each kernel, to account for the new hardware.

Hi O-P, thanks, that seems easy. Could you remind me what the command line is with the "mkinitrd" command ?

djohnston, thanks too, I will look further in the BIOS, to check what the setup is.

Whole procedure is here;

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96077.msg818283.html#msg818283

Sorry to hijack. 

Great, concise method O-P. (as always)

Q: do you have a suggestion how one could copy tutes of yours such as this one to a offline file with the color intact? A simple way I mean. I always use an ordinary textfile to plonk in anything I find around the place, but the colorization would be nicer to read like it is on the forum.

When I want to save a single post within a thread, I use Ksnapshot to take a screenshot of the region I want captured. For that post it would take two screenshots to capture the whole thing, but if saved in the same folder/directory and opened in GQview scrolling, or selecting from the left pane, would have the effect of a page down or page up in the right pane. Alternately one could stitch the two screen shots together to make a new single image. I'm lazy, so would go with the two images in a single directory.

[melodie]

Hi,

The advantage with pdf is that it is possible to copy from it to paste elsewhere.

[Old-Polack]

Hi,

The advantage with pdf is that it is possible to copy from it to paste elsewhere.

To do that one can also just save the particular thread page using the browsers File --> Save Page As.

[djohnston]

Q: do you have a suggestion how one could copy tutes of yours such as this one to a offline file with the color intact? A simple way I mean.

Simplest way I know of. Copy and post from the screen to LibreOffice Writer. It will keep all the colorization, as well as preserving any embedded URIs in the text. Works every time.

[Village Idiot]

Q: do you have a suggestion how one could copy tutes of yours such as this one to a offline file with the color intact? A simple way I mean.

Simplest way I know of. Copy and post from the screen to LibreOffice Writer. It will keep all the colorization, as well as preserving any embedded URIs in the text. Works every time.

That seems to be the most civilized way don't it? Thanks. Tho copying that whole page blows my OO-writer when I paste it. Just copying the one off post works great.

Btw, is it just me or does "Save Page as.." seem to just copy the ads and link the content more and more these days? Most of the pages I open that I've saved still want to go a site which has been moved or is gone. But the gifs for the ads are right there in the accompanying folder. 

[djohnston]

Tho copying that whole page blows my OO-writer when I paste it. Just copying the one off post works great.

Don't copy any linked pictures. The document will end up with the links, not the images. And it can take forever for Writer to render the images in the document.

Btw, is it just me or does "Save Page as.." seem to just copy the ads and link the content more and more these days? Most of the pages I open that I've saved still want to go a site which has been moved or is gone. But the gifs for the ads are right there in the accompanying folder. 

You can Save files as (Web page, complete) or Save file as (Web page, HTML only). Saving complete will copy all images, etc on the page to a folder named the same as the document name you assigned. Saving HTML just saves the page without any external links and images, unless embedded in the web page.