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#1 2011-05-06 13:16:32

dtmc
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[SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

OK, so I managed to hose my first Arch install (forgot to rehash the passwords after switching to sha512. D'oh!) so I decided to reinstall - probably not the easiest way to do it, I know, but I'm trying to learn Arch, so I thought I'd give it a try.

As far as I am aware, I am not doing anything different, but every time I get to the system configuration section, every single configuration file is blank.  I have tried nuking the partition I'm installing Arch to (at the moment, I'm dual booting with Ubuntu) and rebuilding the Grub2 configuration from Ubuntu, in case there's any residual information that the Arch installer is picking up on and I have burned a new CD and tried installing from that, in case there's a problem with the CD.  The only clue I have - if, indeed, it is a clue to this problem and not something entirely different - is an error message I have never seen before in the boot process, right below the IsoLinux copyright message and just before the Arch boot screen comes up

"Unknown keyword in configuration file: IAPPEND"

which, unsurprisingly as it's an unknown keyword, provides no useful hits on Google.

Any ideas?  What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,

David Shaw

Last edited by dtmc (2011-05-06 22:44:20)

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#2 2011-05-06 18:52:57

dtmc
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Re: [SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

OK, I've now tried downloading another ISO from a different mirror and it does exactly the same thing.

David Shaw

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#3 2011-05-06 22:43:44

dtmc
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Re: [SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

I'd just like to thank everyone for not helping me with this.

No.  Seriously.

By *not* helping me, you've forced me to actually use my brain and, in the process, I've learned more than I would have done with your help, which is the whole point of this exercise for me.  So, yeah, thank you all  :-)

The problem?  Oh, yeah.  Three files in /boot - System.map26, vmlinuz26 and grub/menu.lst which, if I'd actually been paying attention, the install process was actually *telling me* were causing problems with the install.  I renamed them and the install went fine.

Now I've just got to sort out the sha512 hashes on the passwords (and do it right, this time) and get the wireless working.  And everything else  :-)

So, once again, thank you,

David Shaw

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#4 2011-05-06 22:57:30

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Re: [SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

We're here to help smile


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#5 2011-05-07 00:00:20

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Re: [SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

Any time, m8.


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#6 2011-05-07 19:47:14

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Re: [SOLVED] Reinstallation: Blank config files?

my pleasure.


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