Hello, I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). While the installer seemed to have succeeded without problems, the freshly installed system didn't boot because its root file systems could not be found:
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... [...] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb At this point the system hanged for some minutes, until ALERT! /dev/sdb3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! was output and the BusyBox shell was executed. But indeed there is no /dev/sdb; there's only one (logical) disk present, /dev/sda. While the installer was running I ran `fdisk -l /dev/sdb' and saw the partitions I created. (I don't know what the installer kernel thought /dev/sda was.) Reading /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst after the failed boot, it seems that for some strange reason the whole system was installed to /dev/sdb. Fixing these files (sdb -> sda) and running update-grub(8) resulted in a bootable system. Befor debugging this further: is this a known problem? TIA, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]