On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:24, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 1969 17:59, 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 > > Debian's kernels run update-grub to update your grub configuration every > time you upgrade kernels. This causes the stanzas referring to your > kernels to be overwritten. > > The proper way to change kernel parameters in Debian grub is to edit the > commented line that starts "# kopt=" (do not uncomment) and then run > update-grub which will propagate the new kernel parameters to the > kernels. > > --Ken Bloom
Thanks Ken. Sage advice. I made the changes. Cheers, -- 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
