Ok. Looks like fixing /boot/grub/menu.lst got my machine into a bootable state.
it sure would be nice to know why aptitude changes this file without asking... Dylan On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:14, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > 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 -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
