The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow?
If you start out with your root FS on one device and later move it to another device, basically what you are doing, there are two things you need to do:
1. Tell the (new) kernel about the change 2. Update /etc/fstab.
I'll elaborate a bit on #1. If you have booted 2.4.25 and you build and install a new kernel, it will assume that you are keeping the same root device (hda, in your case). After installing the new kernel you need to tell it that your root FS is in a different place (sda now). One way to do this is to add a root=/dev/hda? to your grub menu.lst or your lilo.conf and reinstall the boot loader, if necessary.
The other is to update the compiled and installed kernel image to tell it about the change. There is a command line tool that allows you to do this, but I can't remember what it is.
Naturally, don't forget update /etc/fstab so you don't have problems with the rest of your filesystems.
-Roberto Sanchez
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