On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:01:01AM +0800, Richard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > > > whoops. I must have missed (and snipped) that. I assume the messages > > above are from the kernel itself? > > Yes, the message i quoted comes almost instantly after the grub menu > when the kernel tries to load. >
have you tried loading the kernel by hand from the grub> prompt? > > Is it possible that you've got a bad initrd and that's causing the > > problem? You could boot with a live-cd, chroot in and rebuild your > > initrd maybe. > > :-) As i also wrote in my first post, i tried several ways to get other > kernels to boot. From Ubuntu i chrooted into the fresh Debian > installation and loaded/installed the Ubuntu kernel (with no succes), i > build a custom kernel from 2.6.22.6 sources without initrd (with no > succes). All without the desired effect of me being able to boot into > Debian again. So in my view now grub also gets suspected because this > can't load the kernel. yeah, I would say grub is suspect as well. You can reinstall grub from within the chroot too, FWIW. > > I am now using Ubuntu and it looks very nice, maybe i try Debian a few > weeks later again or so, when my mood feels like it. And then i will try > lilo. I was going to suggest trying lilo as well. I find it hard to understand how ubuntu can boot when debian can't. I'm willing to be that if you end up reinstalling debian again, it just works. shrug. A
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