Forgot to add, the machine says it is using grub 1.5. Mark
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > 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
