On 5/27/06, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey everyone, I have been having a problem with Etch and was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue?After updating the initial install, the boot process hangs at "Begin: waiting for root file system" I have repeated the install twice with the same results. Upon searching for answers the only thing I found is the following: I edited the file "/etc/kernel-img.conf" to add the line: ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird And then regenerated the initrd image. dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-1-amd64-8-smp And I could boot. It seems this is an error while creating the initrd image. As this situation stretches my limited abilities I tried following these directions (dubious as they look to me) by using Knoppix but I was unsuccessful. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks Nick
Does your computer have SATA? I ran into similar problems at work with a machine. The problem was that under sarge's kernel the SATA drive showed up as regular IDE (hda). With the newer kernel in etch, SATA shows up as a scsi device (sda). To boot, I had to update the fstab and grub.conf by hand. Cheers, ~Steven -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
