[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Wed Apr 10 13:00:59 CEST 2013

On 04/10/2013 05:06 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> I went through the following steps again:
+> 1) Boot the rescue system
+> 2) drvinst
+> 3) mount your root as /mnt
+> 4) do a "mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
+> 5) do a "chroot /mnt"
+> 6) do a "mount -t proc none /proc"
+> 7) do a "mount -t sysfs none /sys"
+> 8) do "XFdrake"
+> 9) choose the x11 VESA or VGA driver (way down at bottom of list)
+>
+> except that this time I chose the Other:VESA (generic) driver.  On
+> closing XFdrake I got
+>
+> ioctl EVIOCGBIT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
+>
+> Is this to be expected?  Anyway, on reboot it was exactly the same as
+> before.
+
+No idea, sorry.
+
+>
+> Starting afresh, I followed the steps up to running XFdrake (but not
+> running XFdrake yet).  I tried 'ifup eth0' but 'Running in chroot.
+> Ignoring request'.  After "exit" this changed to "Running in chroot.
+> ignoring request. ./network-functions: line 260: cd:
+> /var/run/netreport: No such file or directory.
+
+I guess just bring up eth0 before entering the chroot
+
+>
+> Incidentally, how do you reboot or shutdown when in chroot - and/or
+> how do you reverse the chroot?
+
+chroot starts a shell.  When you exit from that shell, you're out of the 
+chroot.  An "ls /mnt" should indicate where you are: if you see all of 
+your root partition's root directories, you're out of it. Inside it, 
+/mnt will contain whatever it contains on your root partition (if it 
+even exists).
+
+>
+> So - I'm back in console, without running any of the steps yet.  Can
+> you give me the command to add the non-free source and tell me how to
+> get eth0 working?
+
+It's "urpmi.addmedia', but the exact syntax depends on where your mirror 
+is.  Check the man page.
+