Re: Exception in preinstallconfig stage

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On 7 Sep 2003, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:53, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> >      File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 109, in lochangefd
> >        _isys.lochangefd(loop, targ)                           
> >    SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> [snip]
> > It would be very helpful if I could get this to work. But I am clueless
> > what I am doing wrong and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> You need to include the linux-2.4.2-changeloop.patch in your kernel. 
> It's a cute little hack that's used so that we can copy the stage2.img
> off of the cd onto the installed system root and then say "the backing
> store for that loop device is now over there".
> 
Aahhh! Many thanks!!! That did the trick. Now it works very nicely with
a 2.4.22-ac1 kernel.

Thanks,
Holger




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