Chakra Linux...Not starting..

Dimon-z · 2009-03-08 10:32:05

Hello All)Maybe help me...
I installed Chakra Linux, and booting..in boot proces me shows erros
module not found /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/drivers/md/md-mod.ko not found..
I Check it in my Arch Linux and file found!
After this error me show next error
kinit: opening console: not such file or directory
Kernel Panic...
Help..
p.S sorry but my eng..

Last edited by Dimon-z (2009-03-08 10:36:40)

bender02 · 2009-03-08 12:45:25

How about trying asking on Chakra's own forums? http://chakra-project.org/bbs/

chessboxing · 2009-03-17 17:54:06

I think you just could install kde4mod trough installing archlinux. I tested Chakra 2 month ago, and I even couldn't install it, error at 3/4 of the progres. But this is due it's beta (alfa?) stage. However it's a useful project for kde4mod users. But not for you learning curve, if you're a stranger at linuxdom.

Mikko777 · 2009-03-17 19:51:35

bender02 wrote:

How about trying asking on Chakra's own forums? http://chakra-project.org/bbs/

Well it doesn't hurt to ask... but what chakra needs in alpha stage is way more experienced testers who submit bugreports instead of support requests

googling md-mod.ko reveals some references to raid and lvm and both of those are out of scope of chakra installer atm.

You can still use the installer but you need to partition and load raid modules from cli before installing.

bwh1969 · 2009-03-17 21:03:35

Chakra is only in alpha 2 right now. I would suggest using the usb image on a removable device, or you can do what I did and copy the contents of the cd iso to a partition. I then made a grub entry that launches it as a live distro. When logging out, it will drop to a terminal and ask you if you want to save your session.

Using this method you get:

A distro that has great hardware detection every time you boot
A distro that runs out of RAM
A distro that if you make a mistake when you are trying to modify something, you can just shut down and no changes are saved
You don't need to have an ext2/3 partition. It can be anything read my grub (i.e. fat 32)

I did do some work to get it where I like it (I created a user for myself, deleted the "live" user after making sure I had similar permissions, (I had to modify kdmrc to remove its reference at login). I did some other "hacks" as well to modify the base, including merging my mods and the system overlay squashfs into one so that session saving became short and simple. I had a mods overlay that was over 200 MB and close to 75000 files were bing being saved. Now I am down to a 1 minute session save with 3500 files.

courtesy of user gradgrind with some modifications that i use from another linux system with aufs and squashfs support, but if you copy the mods.sqf and system.sqf somewhere else and do the mounting, it does work while running Chakra.

mkdir /home/username/system
mkdir /home/username/mods
mkdir /home/username/union
mksquashfs /home/username/mods /path-to-new-place/mods.sqf
sudo mount -o loop -t squashfs /path-to-originalsystem.sqf /home/username/system
sudo mount -o loop -t squashfs /path-to-originalmods.sqf /home/username/mods
sudo mount -t aufs -o br:mods=rr+wh:system=rr aufs /home/username/union
sudo mksquashfs /home/username/union /path-to-new-place/system.sqf
umount /home/username/union
umount /home/username/mods
umount /home/username/system

Booted into something else:
Copy the original mods and system to another location then copy the new files to the Chakra device. Boot back into Chakra and enjoy a very small overlay:-)

Last edited by bwh1969 (2009-03-17 21:15:13)

Skripka · 2009-03-17 21:57:03

Chakra linux is Arch Linux with KDEmod installed. Just install arch, add the KDEmod repos, and pacman -S kdemod-complete, and you'll have Chakra...and it will work. For sure.

The Chakra liveCD is in Alpha, and I couldn't get to work a few weeks ago too.

bwh1969 · 2009-03-18 12:15:38

I know what I am doing with my "install" is mostly complicated:-) so it isn't recommended for someone who doesn't want to goof around with session saving.

Dieter@be · 2009-03-18 13:25:00

Skripka wrote:

Chakra linux is Arch Linux with KDEmod installed. Just install arch, add the KDEmod repos, and pacman -S kdemod-complete, and you'll have Chakra...and it will work. For sure.

The Chakra liveCD is in Alpha, and I couldn't get to work a few weeks ago too.

It's much more then that. they also write tools to aid in configuration, a graphical installer etc.
I don't use it myself, but I've been browsing their site and I find it looks pretty neat.

Skripka · 2009-03-18 13:40:02

Dieter@be wrote:

Skripka wrote:
Chakra linux is Arch Linux with KDEmod installed. Just install arch, add the KDEmod repos, and pacman -S kdemod-complete, and you'll have Chakra...and it will work. For sure.

The Chakra liveCD is in Alpha, and I couldn't get to work a few weeks ago too.
It's much more then that. they also write tools to aid in configuration, a graphical installer etc.
I don't use it myself, but I've been browsing their site and I find it looks pretty neat.

The end product though, is the same-as near as I can tell.

Arch Linux

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