Andavane
04-14-2007, 03:52 PM
Greetings.
I have an IBM Think-Centre-A50. Yesterday a friend installed an extra 512 mg of RAM for me and all worked fine.
Later on I restarted the machine, setting it to boot from the DVD drive which contains the knoppix 4.0 live CD.
During the booting process it related the following (I copied it onto paper as best I could):
Creating unionfs and symlinks on ramdisk... /knoppix/bin/ln=error while loading shared libraries;
knoppix/bin/ln: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.
/ linux rc: mv: not found
[this was followed by more lines of “not found� items, then...)]
>>Read only CD/DVD system successfully merged with read-write/ ramdisk
/linux xrc : chown : not found
/linux rc: cannot create /var/mn/utmps directory nonexistent
kernel panic – not syncing; vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,3)
at which point it hung.
I switched the machine off and repeated the process with a knoppix 5.1.1 live DVD with the same result.
repeated with a dsl iso in the same dvd drive and it worked fine.
Incidentally the CD booted fine when I put it in the other CD drive and booted from that.
Now here is the strange part:
When I tried again this morning, everything booted perfectly from the DVD drive!
I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what they think was going on.
I made no changes to the system.
I am a 'newbie'.
Kind regards,
john
I have an IBM Think-Centre-A50. Yesterday a friend installed an extra 512 mg of RAM for me and all worked fine.
Later on I restarted the machine, setting it to boot from the DVD drive which contains the knoppix 4.0 live CD.
During the booting process it related the following (I copied it onto paper as best I could):
Creating unionfs and symlinks on ramdisk... /knoppix/bin/ln=error while loading shared libraries;
knoppix/bin/ln: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.
/ linux rc: mv: not found
[this was followed by more lines of “not found� items, then...)]
>>Read only CD/DVD system successfully merged with read-write/ ramdisk
/linux xrc : chown : not found
/linux rc: cannot create /var/mn/utmps directory nonexistent
kernel panic – not syncing; vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,3)
at which point it hung.
I switched the machine off and repeated the process with a knoppix 5.1.1 live DVD with the same result.
repeated with a dsl iso in the same dvd drive and it worked fine.
Incidentally the CD booted fine when I put it in the other CD drive and booted from that.
Now here is the strange part:
When I tried again this morning, everything booted perfectly from the DVD drive!
I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what they think was going on.
I made no changes to the system.
I am a 'newbie'.
Kind regards,
john