On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, overbored wrote: > I posted to relevant lists. I tried to look for any rules on cross > posting but found none. > > The lines are correct; they were written by update-grub (I think; at > least that's what I ran). Anyway the exact problem was that it couldn't > mount the root FS and asked me to make sure the root= parameter was > correct, which it was (same as the 2.4 kernel's root= parameter). > Someone in #debian said that means I have a bad kernel build and to > start over, which I did, but to no avail.
What fs is the root? No - that's irrelevant. Debian kernels modularise everything, and rely on initrd to load the modules, so it should work. You didn't run out of disk in / or /boot, did you? Mine ran out of disk at some stage, and silently build a bad initrd image, without complaining. When I did it a second time after removing a bit of useless cruft (who needs 16megs of /etc/gconf on a box not using gnome? Bah), it did complain, so it depends on whereabouts in the process it runs out of disk on whether it dies. I would have submitted a bug, but unfortunately, not being able to reproduce it (damn heisenbugs) would make it hard to report. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "The thing I love most about deadlines is the wonderful WHOOSHing sound they make as they go past" - DNA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
