A few more observations.... I tried using grub to attempt to boot. I set up the following based on (1) what I saw using the knoppix disk that the internal drives were mounted on /media/sda5 and /media/sdb1...../media/sda5 has the normal linux file system and sdb1 has my backup folders, and (2) grub's tab completion.
grub> root (hd0,4) grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-686 root =/dev/sda5 grub> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.26-1-686 grub> boot I get as far as: Kernel panic: not syncing: VFS unable to mount rootfs on unknown block(0,0) If I back down to 2.6.21. or 2.6.18 I get this error: Begin: mounting root file system... Begin: running /scripts/local_top...done Begin: waiting for root file system... So, I guess my original hypothesis is wrong...the SI drive controller may be working....except for a small annoying kernel panic or inability to load the file system.... Does this help anyone figure out what I should do? Thanks, Mark On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tim <[email protected]>wrote: > > Any suggestions on how to get the machine to boot again? > > When the machine boots, can you tell what version of grub is running? > Sometime recently in Debian they switched from grub 1.x to grub 2.x > and it is possible that 2.x doesn't recognize your SI controller or > something. If you think the bootloader did get upgraded, you could > try using a boot disk to drop back to grub 1.x. Just the first > thought that comes to mind. > > HTH, > tim > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
