On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 00:29 +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: > > > > > I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am > > dropping to a kernel prompt. > > > > I have figured out that I need to > > modprobe sata_via > > exit > > It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. > > > > Is there a step that I have not done in setting this up? Is there a > > quick fix to stop it dropping to the command prompt? > > > Perhaps you need to rebuild your initrd? > Try reinstalling the running kernel, which should regenerate initrd. > Or you can regenerate an initrd from the command line, but I can > never remember the exact command, I think the bin is called > mkinitramfs
Finally rebooted my computer. Reinstalling the kernel helped a lot but not the whole solution, thanks. Now it gave me errors about invalid ext3 superblocks. Typing exit allowed it to boot as normal. I have to figure out how to modify the start delay/ Ken PS: Now that Adobe have released a proper flash player for amd64 the whole computer works a lot better now. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
