On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 01:30 +0100, Zsolt KOZAK wrote: > Hi, > > > On 2005-02-17 22:12, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > >The other machine does much better. The full installation is done > >without problems, grub is in theory installed, and d-i reboots the > >machine to finish up the job. However, the machine doesn't reboot > >properly. It hangs with a blank screen and a blinking cursor on the top > >left. > > > Your grub was installed inproperly... I had the same problem... > > 1. Try to boot with a boot disk (you may try to use your Debian > installer CD with the following kernel parameter: "devfs=nomount"), just > set your root to your root partition on your hard disk. E.g. root=/dev/sda1 > 2. After a proper booting, install grub again. Check this page fore > reference: http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_3.html (Install > GRUB natively section) > Unfortunately this didn't work. At the installer's prompt I tried
linux devfs=nomount root=/dev/sda1 but after loading the kernel it fails with VFS: cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block (0,0) I'm afraid the kernel at this stage doesn't see the drives as "sda". > > Attached you will find the GRUB menu.lst file created by the > >installer. I noticed the line "root (hd0,0)" on each kernel entry. I > >changed that to (sda,0), chroot /target, and run update-grub. It didn't > >work. > > > hd0 means the first hard disk (I think master HDD). It does not depend > on the type of the disk. So you have to use "hd" without reference to > you whether you have a sata or ide interface. > > (hd0,0) means first hard disk, first partition > OK, thanks. -- Pedro > good luck, > Zsolt > > > > -- > Zsolt KOZAK <-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.zsolt.net/ <-- my page > http://www.avonlea.hu/ <-- Road to Avonlea page > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
