Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-04 Thread Fawad Nazir
Thank you very much Predrag and Kent for you reply. Actually i was working on VMWare, it was a long time dealing with this problem, but i could not solve it. Now i have reinstalled the Ubuntu using IDE. Lets see what happen once i compile 2.6.16 kernel. I hope it will work. But i will not leave th

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-04 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
This may be relevant to Debian too. I had (maybe still have) same problem with Debian etch instalation on IBM xSeries 346. I beleive this is a problem with initramfs-tools (there is a bug reported) and this should be fixed in next initarmfstools version in testing. After installation from daily bu

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Kent West
> >> Fawad Nazir wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I installing Ubuntu 5.10 with 2.6.16 kernel. Everything went well but My first suspicion is that your / partition has some sort of filesystem that is not recognized by the kernel, such as ReiserFS (I don't know if ReiserFS is recognized by the kernel

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Fawad Nazir
I also did sent an email on Ubuntu group. Unfortunately, i could not get a reply. I just thought to send it to debian-users to hit a broad range of users. If it makes any trouble for you, I apologize for any inconvenience. However, I think there is no harm to get help from experts no matter where

Re: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell...

2006-05-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Fawad Nazir wrote: > Hi All, > > I installing Ubuntu 5.10 with 2.6.16 kernel. Everything went well but Are you aware that there are mailing lists and forums for Ubuntu? (Hint: debian-user is not one of them). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Des