Howdy, I tried to install the new kernel, but I'm having issues. I suspect that they're not related to this kernel (because I had trouble with another kernel), but rather, with lilo somehow, or maybe some combination of hardware and lilo. Here's what's going on...maybe someone has an idea. My Linux machine died. I came back from vacation and it was very, very dead. So I managed to get ahold of another machine, in this case a Celeron/800, 512MB of RAM, 8MB of shared video memory, and a 40GB hard drive. I installed from the talking Debian disk Shane has on his Debian pages and everything went great! Until, that is, I tried to update to a new kernel by building a new kernel...also by installing the new one from Shane. The machine boots right up to mounting tthe root file system, then says: Kerlen panic, can't load root FS (or something like that, sorry, I reinstalled and don't want to break it again). Anyway, it's not finding the root file system, which is on /dev/hda2. The drive is partitioned with /dev/hda1 (swap, at the end of the hard drive); hda2 (root, 12GB, at the beginning of the drive); hda3 (the rest of the drive, where I'm storing a bunch of junk). Trouble is, lilo claims that the BIOS and the kernel (?) are reporting different cylinder/head counts. Anyone got any ideas what's broke? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV : Executive In Training! Watkins Manager #361534 Shop our catalog of timeless Watkins products at www.tastyshop.net And see how becoming a Watkins associate will improve your family's quality of life at www.tastybiz.com
