> On Apr 13, Craig Small illuminated with a virtual pen :
> The Debian install disks said that I have to use those wierd BSD disk
> labels, so I regetfully did :<
>
there's nothing wierd with them :) BSD labels are good and wholesome :)
> Anyhow, I now have disks like this:
>
<snip table> Looks good too.
> hda: unknown partition table
>
Did you write the table to the disk? Sometimes you have to reboot the system
before it recognises the new partition table. This happens if a partition on
that disk is mounted, or you have an old fdisk which doesn't resync the table.
> then right at the end the kernel panics because it cannot find the root
> partition.
>
> I had
> CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
>
Where did you get that? about 2/3 of the way through the config? with lots
of other partition table support type bits?
does your /etc/fstab have the correct entry for / ?
the kernel should say error mounting root on ... the ... is important. It
tells you what device it's trying to mount / on. eg sda1, sdb2 etc
/Jp...
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