No ideas, though I did notice a bug report on this issue. apt-listbugs tipped me off to this issue. Has to do more with lilo and udev. I'm using unstable here. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser at gmx.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:00 AM Subject: Re: Updated Debian kernels > 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 >
