Re: Root: mkinitrd ... Permission denied. (?)

Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: Hi, at the risk of being tiresome (to myself if no one else) ... [...] "VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0) Please append a correct "root= " boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)" Googling around has suggested

Help! mkinitrd does not work correct in Sarge anymore?!

Hello, I have a big problem. The initrds my installation builds with mkinitrd doesn't work on boot. It doesn't matter which kernel I use. I alway see this message at boot: pivot_root: no such file or directory /sbin/init: 347: cannot open dev/console : no such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill i

Re: Where to download old Potato packages?

Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:39:10PM +0200, Markus Kolb wrote: Hi, where can I find the old Debian Potato release packages? There is still a directory /debian/dists/potato on ftp.debian.org but some packages are lost there. Same on mirrors ... I need /debian/dists/potato

Where to download old Potato packages?

Hi, where can I find the old Debian Potato release packages? There is still a directory /debian/dists/potato on ftp.debian.org but some packages are lost there. Same on mirrors ... I need /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/libmime-base64-perl_2.11-2.deb What happened there? thx for help

Re: LVM install

On Saturday 19 July 2003 20:35, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm doing a new install from the floppies and was wondering if there > is anyway to do this with LVM on the drive? > > I was thinking of something like: > > /boot ext2 > swap > /root ext3 > /dev/LVM... everything else (home, usr, var, opt, tmp