sm <[email protected]> writes: > Second, I am attempting to load Debian 5.0 on these systems, and have > created a working PXE install. It gets all the way through the install, and > after getting around the problem above, grub starts, but always errors out > with "error 25". I've searched for this on the 'net and found that this > error indicates grub can't find the disk. > > I've mounted the CF in another system and everything looks kosher. I've > tried: > Changing FLASH=Primary to FLASH=Secondary > Changing boot device > Changing hd0 and hda in menu.lst and other various places and reinstalling > grub > Installing grub on (hd0,0) > > Nothing seems to work.
I don't know if this is relevant, but the Release Notes for Debian 5.0 mention that under the IDE driver in the newer kernels, IDE disks are called sdX instead of hdX, which can result in grub failing to find the root filesystem, if menu.lst still uses the old names. Here's the relevant part of the release notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#boot-hangs -- David Zelinsky [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
