Progress, progress
Even though I really needed to do work for college stuff today, I decided to work on the new base for Clusterix anyway. My first challenge was to test out the older mini_fo with a 2.4.27 kernel to see if it segfaulted like what paul_c has experienced with it. After setting up the kernel in the base, I then copied the base files over to my PowerBook to create the iso and test it on Virtual PC (this is another reason for building my cluster). And like what paul_c experienced, it segfaulted as well. I was kinda disappointed at this because I thought there was some hope because paul_c had used some patches I didn’t use. As paul_c and I began doing some troubleshooting of the segfaults, I heard back from Olivier (the original creator of the 2.6.x kernel mini_fo version) that he made a backport of mini_fo for me to test! This was wonderful, except I think he forgot to attach it to the email. So I’m waiting to hear back from him again.
Besides that, I wanted to see if I could get the base to boot under translucency just to make sure nothing was completely borked by moving to Morphix pre3 base release. I first added the extra boot option to enable trans, but it didn’t work. Finally figured out that it was being cut off because I had to many boot options already.
Once I straightened that out, I got the iso to boot which was great, but I kept getting these odd modprobe warnings saying that modules.conf was newer than modules.dep. After much aggravation trying to figure why these warnings were being displayed, I eventually devised a hack for it. It seems that during the boot, modules.conf was modified/generated making the timestamp of it newer than modules.dep. Not sure how Morphix didn’t get the warnings, but I needed to add a touch command to knoppix-autoconfig so it would make sure modules.conf would be older than modules.dep. Oh well, another hack to the growing list. 
(Also, alsa is now installed because I had thought it might have been the problem.)
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