Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:13:50PM -0500, Gmail wrote: [Please trim your quotes] This seems to get me part of the way there. I created a modified initrd that does a modprobe -q hpt366 before it loads the generic ide module. The hpt366 module was already in the initrd image. I modified my

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Nick Boyce
Gmail wrote: Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot. [...] What appears to be happening is that while the kernel starts to boot, it seems to change the drive letter of the disk containing the / partition to /dev/hde.

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Pobega
Nick Boyce wrote: Gmail wrote: Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot. [...] What appears to be happening is that while the kernel starts to boot, it seems to change the drive letter of the disk containing

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/07 22:56, Gmail wrote: Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot. The boot lines in my grub's menu.lst lines are (with different variations for version number):

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Gmail
Thanks, Nick. This seems to get me part of the way there. I created a modified initrd that does a modprobe -q hpt366 before it loads the generic ide module. The hpt366 module was already in the initrd image. I modified my /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hde for the root drive. My

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Marty
Gmail wrote: Thanks, Nick. This seems to get me part of the way there. I created a modified initrd that does a modprobe -q hpt366 before it loads the generic ide module. The hpt366 module was already in the initrd image. I modified my /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hde for the root

Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-03 Thread Gmail
Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot. The boot lines in my grub's menu.lst lines are (with different variations for version number): /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 What appears to be happening