On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 04:11PM -0500, guerrier spake thus: > Hi, > I installed the 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 kernel via synaptic. and then > i gave the update-grub coomand. menu.lst was automatically updated; > this is the new entry: > > title aGNUla/DeMuDi, kernel 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > root (hd2,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 root=/dev/hdc1 ro > savedefault > boot What does the rest of your conf file look like? It will tell us what partition/drive you *should* be using as root - does it match this entry? > now when i boot, grub launches, i choose 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7. it > starts to load and then i get this error: > > VFS: cannot open root device 'hdc1" or unknown-block (0-0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0-0) > > I can still boot the 2.4.25 kernel and windowsxp. I also did this, on > the advice of Free: > > # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 (--install) > cannot access archive: No such file or directory > error were encountered while processing: > kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > > Gustin inquired about initrd.img-2.6.10-1-multimedia. And I found > that there in no entry in menu.lst about it nor is there such a file > in /boot directory. > > Any ideas? > > guerrier > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
