Just a few ideas. Go in with one of the speak-up enabled rescue disks and mount your partition where /boot is on. Check if the entries for root refer to the correct partition. That fdisk report about different disk giometry is kind of normal and I would not suspect that it has much to do with the problem. HTH, Willem On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Buddy Brannan wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to CallCentre at csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
