[PLUG-TALK] Netbook computer disassembly

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Matt McKenzie wrote:

> Your reasoning there is sound, it does not really sound like a
> non-compatible drive issue, if it was it should just refuse to work at
> all.

Matt,

   I don't know if this makes the situation better or worse. :-)

> I have to dig back in my own experience a bit, since it has been a while
> since I used a distro that used lilo, but I seem to remember something
> about updating the initramfs drivers if any major hardware was changed.
> Maybe this could be what is going on, lilo doesn't have the required
> drivers to see the new SSD so it just borks. The distro installer
> environment has much more drivers in its kernel (or modules) so it can
> read/write to the SSD just fine.

   That's not too likely. First, the default vmlinuz is the huge kernel; the
one with all modules built in. The first thing I do after a new
installation or upgrade is cd to /boot, change the softlinks (System.map,
config, vmlinuz) to point to the generic-smp kernel (for 32-bit systems),
run mkinitrd to create a new initial ram disk, then modify /etc/lilo.conf
and run /sbin/lilo. So, after installation the reboot should use the same
huge kernel as the installation dvd.

> HTH, my $0.02, and may the source be with you.

Thanks,

Rich