On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:04:06 -0600, you wrote: > If copying a previously saved version of /boot to the your /boot > partition really solved the problem, then problem couldn't have been > with the kernel or the initramfs, because the kernel and initramfs > that are used during boot are stored in the NSLU2 flash memory: > copying them to /boot without running flash-kernel would have made no > difference to your system.
I was astonished that the copying of the files solved the problem as I supposed the kernel and initramfs to be flashed into the eeprom. But it lasts only for one boot. > It sounds like your system either had a > problem mounting a hard drive or the system got stuck during an fsck. > Was there any drive activity when the NSLU2 appeared inactive? No, nothing. The stick I boot from was completely inactive. > Also, > did you set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS according to the hints in > /usr/share/doc/nslu2-utils/README.Debian? If not, you may like to do > this on your reinstalled system. The FSCKFIX=yes is set the first time I booted ever ;-) > It is possible that your root disk changed device name, e.g. from sda > to sdb. If your partitions in /etc/fstab are listed by device name > (e.g. sda, sdb, etc), then your system would not have been able to > find your root disk, and the boot would have failed. Maybe that this was the problem. The root disk is mounted by /dev/sda, the swap by label and the data disks by udev. I'll go to change that. At the moment I believe that maybe the flashing of the new kernel wasn't sucessfull. It is strange that I'm not the only one with this problem... Mit freundlichen Grüßen H. Hiemesch -- homepage: http://mitglied.lycos.de/hiemesch/index.shtml Don't forward my emails without asking me. Die Verbreitung meiner emails ist ohne meine Zustimmung nicht gestattet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
