Re: Problems with kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:09:21 -0700



Luk Claes wrote: 
David Vanfleet wrote:
  
Hi, I'm trying to get Debian (Lenny) to recognize 6 Gig of memory on a
Dell PE 2650 server. I installed the basic 5.02a Debian system with just
a minimal install then I installed the 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel so it
will see all the memory. When I boot into the bigmem kernel it fails to
boot, the errors I get are:

   WARNING boot device may be renamed. Try root=/dev/hda3
   ...
   ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist
    

Did you try with changing the root device for the bigmem kernel to
/dev/hda3?

If you use grub for booting you could do that by pressing 'e' (for edit
on the line with the bigmem kernel) and afterwards pressing 'b' (for
boot) while in the grub menu (to just try it) or updating
/boot/grub/menu.lst (for the bigmem kernel) and running update-grub
before rebooting into the bigmem kernel.
Thanks for your response, I did try what you suggested but got the same error, except it says that "/dev/hda3 does not exist". Looking in /dev there is no sda* or hda*, there only an hda which I think is the CD drive. When I boot to the default Kernel then /dev/sda3 exists and is used to boot the kernel. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
David

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