On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:01:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip > > This seems to be where things went wrong for you. Did you reboot yourself > (why) or did you correctly finish the installation? > It all points to my rebooting myself without running base-config. Looking back, the smart thing to do at the critical time is to remove the partition with /home on it from the mount point, run the disk formats again and run base-config. Then log the results onto a floppy.
On other occasions, I did exactly that, but not this time > > A search revealed that /dev/hda and /dev/hdd had disappeared, > > taking with them the /home directories at /dev/hda4. It appeared that > > the hard disk and DVD-ram were identified by the BIOS but possibly the > > module was not being loaded into the kernel. > > Either that or there may be a conflict between the SATA and other IDE > drivers where the order in which drivers are loaded is important. You > will need to check the messages to console and maybe check the initrd to > see which it is. > This is ongoing. I have found that my new kernel build does not need initrd, so that gets commented out of lilo.conf. Googling for unknown-block(8,1) was not useful, so I am about to search for "unknown partition table" HTH Richard A Lough -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
