Well damnit. After doing a couple upgrades, and then moving to X.org, 2.6.16 kernel, and the new NVIDIA drivers, I thought that I was going to be ok after an aptitude dist-upgrade....
Things were working fine, until I started monkeying around with sound modules. Somehow KDE was breaking the snd-intel8x0 kernel module... but this is a side story. After getting fed-up with the sound issues, I rebooted the machine. About half-way through the boot sequence, the message: "Begin: waiting for root file system..." and then nothing. Fortunately I have an older Knoppix CD, that I am currently using to boot the machine, and write this email. Everything looks fine on the HD, but I knoticed one thing. In /boot/grub/menu.lst I see that: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686-smp root=/dev/hdc3 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-686-smp savedefault boot I have a serial-ATA drive in this machine, and since kernel 2.6 this drive has appeared as a SCSI device. I think that aptitude must have changed the values in the grub configuration so that: root=/dev/sda3 ------> root=/dev/hdc3 I am hoping that this is the reason that my machine is not booting. If so, is there anyway to make aptitude remeber that my root drive should be on /dev/sda3 ??? Ok. crossing my fingers, and re-booting to see if this fixed things... Dylan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
