Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
At 19:55 2005-07-31, you wrote: I did my first Debian installation yesterday and met the same problem when I did a reboot. So I did some searches in http://www.linuxquestions.orgwww.linuxquestions.org and saw one post suggesting that it might be the initrd line in grub.conf. then I changed initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 to initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda9 and everything worked ever since. I thought it was root=/dev/hda9 which tells initrd where to look for some of the files so that if you missed it, it would never know where to locate /dev/console. On 7/31/05, Björn Johansson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 18:37 2005-07-31, you wrote: Hi, On dim, 2005-07-31 at 15:14 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. Did you specify the right initrd.img to use to your bootloader (lilo or grub)? -- strawks mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Well.. I haven't specified anything. Like I said before, I installed a precompiled package from my Debian system using Dselect. I have several kernels to boot from and I really would like to get a 2.6 working, because the graphics don't work 8-(, and the kernel can't find my MX 1000 laser mouse + the standard 2.4 kernel can't even find my ATi Radeon(9800XT) card. I'm thinking right now that before I should switch to Suse instead! But I have been using Debian since 1999, so I don't really want to change to another distribution unless I really haveto. This Debian Sarge distribution just didn't like my hardware and the cause of that was because the netinstall used a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. Not cool! Before, when I ran Woody I had a working system together with a 2.6 kernel which I had compiled for myself. It was working nice, but then I decided to reformat the system with Sarge instead. The old system was in a mess, and I didn't want to mix the old with the new. I read something about that there could be missing files in /dev. I will check this out later. Right now I'm sitting with WindowsXP, again.. I need to switch off the computer and change harddrive since a dualboot solution makes it too hot inside the case. :-( Oh well, that's another story. :-) Interesting to see how many tips I can get in this thread, I'll wait a bit.. Björn -- Dell Inspiron 600m Pentium-M 1.6G 512MB, 60G ATI 9000 Mobility Hello all! I just wanted to say that the reason to why my Debian system has been working so bad is because, ehum *blushing* It seems I got an inofficial cd-image. It should be working better this time. I downloaded an official build this time. Sorry to have bothered you all. Greetings Björn
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
On Sunday 31 July 2005 19.55, ZeeGeek wrote: I did my first Debian installation yesterday and met the same problem when I did a reboot. So I did some searches in www.linuxquestions.orghttp://www.linuxquestions.organd saw one post suggesting that it might be the initrd line in grub.conf. then I changed initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 to initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda9 and everything worked ever since. I thought it was root=/dev/hda9 which tells initrd where to look for some of the files so that if you missed it, it would never know where to locate /dev/console. On 7/31/05, Björn Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 18:37 2005-07-31, you wrote: Hi, On dim, 2005-07-31 at 15:14 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. Did you specify the right initrd.img to use to your bootloader (lilo or grub)? -- strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well.. I haven't specified anything. Like I said before, I installed a precompiled package from my Debian system using Dselect. I have several kernels to boot from and I really would like to get a 2.6 working, because the graphics don't work 8-(, and the kernel can't find my MX 1000 laser mouse + the standard 2.4 kernel can't even find my ATi Radeon(9800XT) card. I'm thinking right now that before I should switch to Suse instead! But I have been using Debian since 1999, so I don't really want to change to another distribution unless I really haveto. This Debian Sarge distribution just didn't like my hardware and the cause of that was because the netinstall used a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. Not cool! Before, when I ran Woody I had a working system together with a 2.6 kernel which I had compiled for myself. It was working nice, but then I decided to reformat the system with Sarge instead. The old system was in a mess, and I didn't want to mix the old with the new. I read something about that there could be missing files in /dev. I will check this out later. Right now I'm sitting with WindowsXP, again.. I need to switch off the computer and change harddrive since a dualboot solution makes it too hot inside the case. :-( Oh well, that's another story. :-) Interesting to see how many tips I can get in this thread, I'll wait a bit.. Björn Just wanted to say that I have a fully working system now. Debian Sarge is working fine with my hardware! 8-) But I guess I need to compile myself a kernel despite this, as usual. The 3D graphics is really slow and the sound don't work either. Overall, it feels fast work with and it doesn't surprise me, I have been using Debian for a long, long time. :-) I'm using 2.4.27 and I have also installed the latest drivers from ATi. So 2D graphics is working excellent! I mostly use my system for mail and internet, so there's no panic right now. But in a week or two I'm hoping to test out the demo version of Doom 3 here in Linux. I've understood there was an native version somewhere.. Oh well, that's not important. I use WindowsXP for games, but if the Linux community together with companies such as ATi and nVidia brings out kick ass drivers, then I might switch to Linux totally. Maybe the Windows Longhorn (now called Vista) makes people realise that Windows isn't so well suited for games afterall, when comparing against Linux? Well, I can dream, can't I? :-D Björn
Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. Greetings Björn
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
Em Dom 31 Jul 2005 10:14, Björn Johansson escreveu: Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... Google around and you will find a lot of stuff about this problem. Maybe this ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00334.html ) can help you. -- Rafael Alexandre Schmitt http://rafasch.blog.uol.com.br
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
Hi, On dim, 2005-07-31 at 15:14 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. Did you specify the right initrd.img to use to your bootloader (lilo or grub)? -- strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
At 18:37 2005-07-31, you wrote: Hi, On dim, 2005-07-31 at 15:14 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Hello! I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp server using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) This is the output: /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The kernel is precompiled btw. My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I can't find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create the console device, maybe? Hmm... I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. Did you specify the right initrd.img to use to your bootloader (lilo or grub)? -- strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well.. I haven't specified anything. Like I said before, I installed a precompiled package from my Debian system using Dselect. I have several kernels to boot from and I really would like to get a 2.6 working, because the graphics don't work 8-(, and the kernel can't find my MX 1000 laser mouse + the standard 2.4 kernel can't even find my ATi Radeon(9800XT) card. I'm thinking right now that before I should switch to Suse instead! But I have been using Debian since 1999, so I don't really want to change to another distribution unless I really haveto. This Debian Sarge distribution just didn't like my hardware and the cause of that was because the netinstall used a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. Not cool! Before, when I ran Woody I had a working system together with a 2.6 kernel which I had compiled for myself. It was working nice, but then I decided to reformat the system with Sarge instead. The old system was in a mess, and I didn't want to mix the old with the new. I read something about that there could be missing files in /dev. I will check this out later. Right now I'm sitting with WindowsXP, again.. I need to switch off the computer and change harddrive since a dualboot solution makes it too hot inside the case. :-( Oh well, that's another story. :-) Interesting to see how many tips I can get in this thread, I'll wait a bit.. Björn
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
At 19:44 2005-07-31, you wrote: On dim, 2005-07-31 at 19:22 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Well.. I haven't specified anything. Like I said before, I installed a precompiled package from my Debian system using Dselect. It seems that now kernel packages try to setup the bootloader, but it may have failed. If you're using lilo, take a look at /etc/lilo.conf, if you're using grub, take a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst. I have several kernels to boot from and I really would like to get a 2.6 working, because the graphics don't work 8-(, and the kernel can't find my MX 1000 laser mouse + the standard 2.4 kernel can't even find my ATi Radeon(9800XT) card. I'm thinking right now that before I should switch to Suse instead! But I have been using Debian since 1999, so I don't really want to change to another distribution unless I really haveto. This Debian Sarge distribution just didn't like my hardware and the cause of that was because the netinstall used a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6. Not cool! I think you could have entered linux26 when booting the netinst to have a Linux 2.6. Ooops. I forgot about that one. :-( Perhaps I shall recreate all the partitions and start all over again, perhaps? But that does seem overkill, but perhaps it's the easiest thing? :-/ I feel a bit lazy, have been using Windows a little to much lately I think. :-) I'm using grub and yes I will look at the config file once I get back to my Linux system.. I have spent at least 24 hours in getting that Sarge system to work, so I really don't like Debian right now, but tomorrow at gets number one in Linux distributions once again. One thing I really like about Debian is all the support I get! But when I'm using Linux I haveto work in text mode only and it don't feel very modern browsing the web using Lynx! This is 2005. :-] Before, when I ran Woody I had a working system together with a 2.6 kernel which I had compiled for myself. It was working nice, but then I decided to reformat the system with Sarge instead. The old system was in a mess, and I didn't want to mix the old with the new. I read something about that there could be missing files in /dev. I will check this out later. Right now I'm sitting with WindowsXP, again.. I need to switch off the computer and change harddrive since a dualboot solution makes it too hot inside the case. :-( Oh well, that's another story. :-) Interesting to see how many tips I can get in this thread, I'll wait a bit.. Björn -- strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Standard 2.6.8 Debian kernel is not working!! Why? Please help!
Björn Johansson wrote: [snip] I'm using grub and yes I will look at the config file once I get back to my Linux system.. I have spent at least 24 hours in getting that Sarge system to work, so I really don't like Debian right now, but tomorrow at gets number one in Linux distributions once again. One thing I really like about Debian is all the support I get! But when I'm using Linux I haveto work in text mode only and it don't feel very modern browsing the web using Lynx! This is 2005. :-] you don't need to get in your linux system to change your grub config. You can change your config on the bootprompt use bash-style tabbing. Check the grub manual and try it, it's pretty cool. [snip] wim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
