Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Could it be assigning names (hda, hdc, sda, sdc, etc) differently at > > different boots? > > It not only could be, that's what it was. I had to change hdc to hdg > after the upgrade (both in the kernel boot

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-30 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could it be assigning names (hda, hdc, sda, sdc, etc) differently at > different boots? It not only could be, that's what it was. I had to change hdc to hdg after the upgrade (both in the kernel boot line and in fstab, of

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-30 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could it be assigning names (hda, hdc, sda, sdc, etc) differently at > different boots? It not only could be, that's what it was. I had to change hdc to hdg after the upgrade (both in the kernel boot line and in fstab, of

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:06:31AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hello, > > After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty > hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I > can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and > usu

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:06:31AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hello, > > After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty > hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I > can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and > usu

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/01/07 09:57), Dan H. wrote: > Zach wrote: > > Do you research der physik? Maybe you installed a new kernel or before > > you did not use initrd and now it is expecting to find the initrd > > entry in your boot loader but you don't have it. Try a rescue disk and > > then mount your root files

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread Dan H.
Zach wrote: > Do you research der physik? Maybe you installed a new kernel or before > you did not use initrd and now it is expecting to find the initrd > entry in your boot loader but you don't have it. Try a rescue disk and > then mount your root filesystem with chroot. Also can try at boot > pr

After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel Haude
Hello, After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and usually gets beyond that point. But of course now I'm in my office, and my w