Re: Booting Problems with grub

2003-12-02 Thread Lance Simmons
* Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031202 16:38]: > Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings. What do you mean "except for the initrd"? Are you building from debian kernel sources (which are patched for initrd)? How are you building your initrd, and how are you linking t

Booting Problems with grub

2003-12-02 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, booting Debianized kernels with grub does not create any troubles. However, when I try to build a kernel myself optimized for my laptop, the kernel panics because it believes not to be able to mount root. Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings. Of course, the

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:45:17 +1000, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with > >> "rescue root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a ker

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with "rescue >> root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a kernel panic, >> because it can't mount the root fs... This time there was some error >> about "unsupported optional

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread David Z Maze
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple of days ago, I installed these packages from sid: > lm-sensors-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 > i2c-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 > > I have done this before many times, to save myself the trouble of > compiling these kernel modules myself. I'm running a tes

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: OK, but I still have the LinuxOLD entry in my LILO menu. Since I'm running stock kernels, this should be starting my previous kernel anytime. So, I chose the option, and it booted until it had to mount the root fs. There I got a kernel panic: can't mount root fs. (No cle

booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-18 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hello all, A couple of days ago, I installed these packages from sid: lm-sensors-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 i2c-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 I have done this before many times, to save myself the trouble of compiling these kernel modules myself. I'm running a testing system with the 2.4.21-4-k7 stock kernel,

Re: new kernel and booting problems

2003-01-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 January 2003 00:40, Who-T wrote: > Hi, > > Today I have compiled and installed a new kernel (2.4.20 with the > patches from AC) for my debian system with the following commands. > > make-kpkg --revision kernel_image > dpkg -i > > Now I

new kernel and booting problems

2003-01-03 Thread Who-T
Hi, Today I have compiled and installed a new kernel (2.4.20 with the patches from AC) for my debian system with the following commands. make-kpkg --revision kernel_image dpkg -i Now I have the problem that when I boot the new kernel only the /boot and the / partition are mounted, the rest (

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-23 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:48:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > With both the kernel-image packages I get the error | >Kernel Panic : Couldn't mount root fs on device | | More details please, start with the major:minor and the few lines before | this messa

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With both the kernel-image packages I get the error >Kernel Panic : Couldn't mount root fs on device More details please, start with the major:minor and the few lines before this message. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: He

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:13:39AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: | --- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but I am having | > lots of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using the | > idepci disks (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot fr

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but > I am having lots > of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using > the idepci disks > (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from > the hard disk with > no difficulty. > > The difficulty co

booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread dman
I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but I am having lots of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using the idepci disks (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from the hard disk with no difficulty. The difficulty comes in booting a 2.4 kernel. I installed kernel-image-2.

Re: Booting Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my laptop. I'm not blaming it > on any particular software or OS, but I thought someone might could help me > out. My laptop dual boots Win98 and Debian (testing) using LILO. I can > boot up into Linux a

Booting Problems

2001-04-19 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with my laptop. I'm not blaming it on any particular software or OS, but I thought someone might could help me out. My laptop dual boots Win98 and Debian (testing) using LILO. I can boot up into Linux any time I want to, no problem. However, if I'm in

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan Duehr
I've seen odd booting behavior from LILO before when BIOS settings were set to things that Linux couldn't understand/support. Other things I've tried and succeeded in Linux installations on some machines in the past is completely removing all but the ABSOLUTELY necessary hardware and reconfiguring

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Nathan Duehr wrote: > > Make sure you try the Tecra disk images > I've read it and tried it. But thats a 'no go' > Any other suggestions.? If I recall, your problem is that you cannot get past 'loading root.bin' -- or was it 'loading linux'. I would suggest

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-18 Thread hj.vink
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of > > > debian 2.1 fails. > > > After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for your replies. My original e-mail included

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Duehr
Make sure you try the Tecra disk images, which are zImage kernels instead of bzImage kernels. There's some notes on the mirrors in the README files and in the HTML doc files of the bootdisks regarding this in the disk-i386 directory. On 16 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of > debian 2.1 fails. > After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs. Generally this means a bad floppy. There are other boot methods also, such as CD-ROM or loadlin from

Booting problems!

1999-08-12 Thread hj.vink
Hello, thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of debian 2.1 fails. After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs. I tried several bootdisks (resc1440.bin resc1440-safe.bin resc1440tecra.bin) and even old bootdisks from a previous debian versio

Booting problems

1999-02-12 Thread Robert Rati
A friend of mine is having problems booting for some reason. He makes a kernel and uses a boot disk to boot Linux, and we just tried compiling the 2.2.1 kernels on his machine. Now the boto disks says "Loading Linux" and just stops. We've tried compiling the 2.0.34 kernels, which is what he was

Booting Problems, Floopy drive is dying!!

1998-12-29 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, I am upgrading a system from Red Hat to Debian 2.0. But it seems the floppy drive on the box is dead. I can not write a boot disk no matter what I tried to do. I use new floppies, old floppies etc and nothing works. At the point where dinstall ask you to insert a floppy and everything seem

Debian HAMM LOADLIN booting problems ... any help please ??

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
I have a Debian Hamm system with kernel 2.0.34 running just fine on my /dev/hdb1. /dev/hda1 is infested by a Win95b system. I copied the /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 as vmlinuz to my /dev/hdb6 FAT partition along with loadlin.exe. Boot win95 in DOS mode, goto my d:\loadlin directory and issue my loadlin

Re: Booting problems

1996-09-09 Thread David C. Winters
> From: "David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. > > After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" > > floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into > > Linux, the foll

Re: Booting problems

1996-08-26 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. > After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" > floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into > Linux, the following co

Booting problems

1996-08-26 Thread David C. Winters
I'm running into a problem with one, lone Linux box right now. After the BIOS bootstraps, the drive and CD-ROM and recognized, and the 3.5" floppy is seen, instead of saying "LILO" as a preface to LILO's booting into Linux, the following comes up: xFA: (where x == /dev/hdax according to