Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:42:20PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 refuses to > > boot. > > FWIW I have 2.4.4 booting like a charm here. I didn't change

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Faller
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 15:49, David Wright wrote: > This may or may not help. The message above looks exactly like what > you'd expect if sda was an empty Zip drive. If inserting a disk and > rebooting changes the message, then that's what's happened. A very strange, but good idea, it did change.

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel Faller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am constantly getting: > > sda: READ CAPACITY failed > sda: status=0 message=00 host=0 driver=28 > sda: extended sense code = 2 > block size assumed to be 512 bytes disksize = 1GB > sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0. > > This happens when I try to

booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi, I am constantly getting: sda: READ CAPACITY failed sda: status=0 message=00 host=0 driver=28 sda: extended sense code = 2 block size assumed to be 512 bytes disksize = 1GB sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0. This happens when I try to boot kernel 2.4.4, kernel 2.4.1 works perfectly, they a

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Faller
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 18:17, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:42:20PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > FWIW I have 2.4.4 booting like a charm here. I didn't change my > lilo.conf either. That's right, I tried it with a different PC at home, and it worked without any problem with th

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:42:20PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > Hi, > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 refuses to > boot. FWIW I have 2.4.4 booting like a charm here. I didn't change my lilo.conf either. > But no success, it refuses to boot and basically tells

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread mdevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:00:10PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2001 13:54, you wrote: > > --- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check the name you have for initrd in lilo.conf > > > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 > >

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Daniel Faller
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 13:54, you wrote: > --- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check the name you have for initrd in lilo.conf > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 > > does not match below > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4 in "/etc/lil

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread patrick q
--- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 > refuses to > boot. I do not think that my kernel Configuration is wrong. > > There was a Thread "trouble booting 2.4.4" some

booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi, I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 refuses to boot. I do not think that my kernel Configuration is wrong. There was a Thread "trouble booting 2.4.4" some days ago, which suggested to put: do_initrd = Yes in "/etc/kernel-img.conf" and initr

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Brian May
> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Note that it doesn't mention _how_ to modify your boot Michael> loader. I guess there are a lot of them, but lilo is Michael> pretty common... I have sometimes felt it would be better, if there {lilo,grub} had h

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-07 Thread Jason Healy
At 989287374s since epoch (05/07/01 07:02:54 -0400 UTC), Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. > > Hmm, I thought the messag

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:02:54PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. > > Hmm, I thought the message in the preins

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. Hmm, I thought the message in the preinst was as prominent as it could be. Any suggestions on how it can be impr

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:28:37PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > > Just hit this myself. I'm not at work, so I'm not completely sure how I > fixed it (and my box is back in windows, so I can't ssh in...) > > I do know that it has to do with the new kernel images using initrd to boot. > This means

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Jason Healy
At 989201956s since epoch (05/06/01 21:19:16 -0400 UTC), Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. > Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root > partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.con

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. > Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root > partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I possible the kernel doesnt support the ide

trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there. I just installed a binary kernel 2.4.4 on my P-III. Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I tried passing that as a boot option, but I had the same problem. Any idea w

trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I tried passing that as a boot option, but I had the same problem. Any idea w