After running 2.6.5-1-smp on DS20Ls for almost a year, a disk died on one of them. I fsck'd some partitions, but I believe the kernel image (or initrd) is just not valid, I'm unable to boot.
So I downloaded the daily build d-i for alpha (18-may-2005), and burned me a cd-rom and booted it. I found that partman couldn't see the partitions on my disk, which I wanted to preserve. The only thing it would give me a choice to do was select the whole (IDE1) disk and create a new partition table. Rather than do that, I shell'd out and mounted all the partitions and verified that everything was there. I used fdisk and double checked, and the partitions are there. So I search around the debian archives and stumbled across a piece of myself with the same problem a year ago (almost): http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/06/msg00024.html My solution back then was to give up on sarge and use the woody installer (2.2.22) and do an upgrade. I didn't remember that's how I got around it until I re-read that old message. So the problem remains.. ..the partitions exist and the current alpha sarge d-i partman cannot see the partitions. I even manually mounted them onto /target and tried to skip those steps, but I can't seem to get that to work either. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
