Re: Boot problems: atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting [was: empty subject]

2018-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2018-08-17, wrote: > > I fear I can't help you with that -- but I "decorated" your mail subject > a bit for others to find it. The subject was garnished for me. I saw: [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop from Tom Arnall or (or maybe tom arnall, or e.e. cummings). > Cheers > - -- t >

Boot problems: atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting [was: empty subject]

2018-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 08:32:47PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Hi, Tom -- > I keep getting the following error when my machine boots: > >[radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting > > the system finally comes up, after

stretch boot problems

2016-03-04 Thread Carlos Davila
Hi, I am having problems booting Stretch (Debian 9). During boot, I get a series of messages: (1 of 4) A start job is running for . (2 of 4) A start job is running for. . (4 of 4) A start job is running for Network Manager (47 s / 1min 35s) and after waiting for several minutes, I ge

Re: IA64 zx2000 boot problems

2013-11-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Eberhard Heuser wrote: > I want to install the newest debian version on my Itanium zx2000 machine. > > The system crashes shortly after elilo is started. I've seen some reports > about this problem but I cannot find any solution in the postings. That is rather special hardware. I think it is cool

IA64 zx2000 boot problems

2013-11-19 Thread Eberhard Heuser
Hi all,   I want to install the newest debian version on my Itanium zx2000 machine.   The system crashes shortly after elilo is started. I've seen some reports about this problem but I cannot find any solution in the postings.   thanx Eberhard

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Everything is back up and running. > > Gremlins.. > > Thanks for your help! I'm glad that it's working. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran a shutdown -h now from recovery mode, and now the system boots into normal mode without errors. I misspoke - I have grub2. /boot/grub/grub.cfg: root@hammerhead:/home/mark# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates #

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips >> wrote: >>> >>> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server >>> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I g

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:09:03PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >Or, do you mean > >update−initramfs -u This was the command I was thinking of. Basically, "unable to mount root fs" usually means that the kernel (in conjunction with the initramfs) can't find your root file system. If you'r

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Or, do you mean *update-initramfs -u * *Mark * On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Darac, > > It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell > workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with > successive kernels. > > Before I scre

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Darac, It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with successive kernels. Before I screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that I run from recovery mode? #dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Tom, Yes, I looked in /boot/grub.cfg and the lines for the menu entries for both normal boot and recovery mode are identical except regular boot says quiet and recovery says single. Still can't get it to boot. Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server > (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > > kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) > > One of the updat

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server >(Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > >kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown >-block(0,0)

Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode with this

Re: boot problems (I think)

2011-11-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, A system at a remote site cannot be reached via ssh and is not reacting to a ping after a reboot. This system has been rebooted in the past and had no problems booting. I will be going over there later this evening to find out what has gone wrong. The system is a HP server with iLo and a s

boot problems (I think)

2011-11-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, A system at a remote site cannot be reached via ssh and is not reacting to a ping after a reboot. This system has been rebooted in the past and had no problems booting. I will be going over there later this evening to find out what has gone wrong. The system is a HP server with iLo and a stan

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis >>  wrote: >>> >>> BTW, could someone explain the difference between >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT >>> and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/defa

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT appli

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT > and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT applies to the runlevel 2 entry and GRUB_CMDLINE_

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 02/23/2011 02:22 PM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: I had solved this in lenny by using the following /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. Your solution seem

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: > I had solved this in lenny by using the following > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. > My solution is broken after the upgrade to squeeze and the problem > has regr

Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

2011-02-23 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi! To simplify things a little: I have an external USB disk (/dev/sdc1) that is part of an MD array (/dev/md0). During boot, I experienced the following problem: /dev/md0 was assembled with only 1 drive out of 2 (the internal one). This was due to /dev/sdc1 taking some time to be detected,

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 22:46:55 Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > > > > you have the root already > > > > root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. > > The only reason I posed the que

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 12:42:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 13:51:14, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > > root(hd1,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 13:51:14, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > root(hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > initrd /boot/initrd.im

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >> >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet >> >> you have the root already >> >> root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. >> >> > > The only reason I posed the question is because all my

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Glen Lee Edwards wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet you have the root already root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. The only reason I posed the question is because all my Dell PCs have this problem, and every time Debian upg

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet you have the root already root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 I'm getting an error on boot that's related to

boot problems

2008-11-29 Thread Tamas Hegedus
Hi, I am running lenny and having some bootup problems. * 1. I have a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables If I boot the system up, I see that it runs. If I issue an iptables -L -n, I see SOME of my configurations. ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0

boot problems with the compiled kernel 2.6.23

2008-01-03 Thread tharanga Wijethilake
hi all, I compiled the kernel 2.6.23 and did it in several ways but at each time end up in getting the following error at the boot time. Check root = bootarg cat /cmdline or missing module or devices; cat /proc/modules ls dev ALERT /dev/sda4 does not exist Dropping to shell BusyBox.. and th

Re: moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, > did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 > (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda

Re: moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, > did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 > (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda

moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda10 to hdc2, using dd. Everything looks fine in hdc2, and when I mou

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-31 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Bob McGowan schrieb: Roman, For DOS fat based filesystems, you need to install a DOS tool set such as mtools or dosfstools. The mtools includes 'mlabel' to add a DOS label to an existing device. The documentation describes how to set this up. The dosfstools has a 'mkdosfs' command to creat

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: Thanks for your answer bob. Now there's only two problems remaining. First, my internet connection still isn't working, but I see I'll have to go investigate on this one but 2nd you might be able to help me with. my usb hdd, /dev/sda on the standard and sdb on my se

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Thanks for your answer bob. Now there's only two problems remaining. First, my internet connection still isn't working, but I see I'll have to go investigate on this one but 2nd you might be able to help me with. my usb hdd, /dev/sda on the standard and sdb on my self-built kernel is fat32 or

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: Hi fellow debianists! I've compiled a kernel from the up-to-date kernel-source-2.6 package with the aim to be able to build realtime linux security module. To do this I followed the instructions from the README.Debian in the realtime-lsm documentation. I got the li

self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Hi fellow debianists! I've compiled a kernel from the up-to-date kernel-source-2.6 package with the aim to be able to build realtime linux security module. To do this I followed the instructions from the README.Debian in the realtime-lsm documentation. I got the linux-2.6_2.6.18-7 sources, un

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:25, Bradley Alexander wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. > > I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work > > around but it may be hard to d

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
I have little to no idea what's going on on this thread as I have just joined, but I'm guessing from the subject that someone is having boot trouble. I have had some trouble booting into any kernel. Have you tried putting in the parameter 'acpi=off'? When I do that, I can boot. Otherwise, it freeze

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I > heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but > it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /. Is this specific to AMD? I have been ru

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from > 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). > > With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of > the boot

2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees consol

Re: X11 video spec/boot problems

2005-08-23 Thread Wackojacko
'evening all, having dabbled with various distros, as well as debian-related applications (fink), i decided that it was finally time to give the mighty debian a spin. However, I am having problems starting up x11--despite going through xf86conf several times, and selecting the lowest require

X11 video spec/boot problems

2005-08-22 Thread dsilei
'evening all, having dabbled with various distros, as well as debian-related applications (fink), i decided that it was finally time to give the mighty debian a spin. However, I am having problems starting up x11--despite going through xf86conf several times, and selecting the lowest requirements

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
ser@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boot problems Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. I assume here you mean the full CD-set debian 3.0 r5 (= woody revision 5). This

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
-Original Message- From: Christian Mack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2005 13:23 To: Jatin Patel Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boot problems Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Christian Mack
Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. I assume here you mean the full CD-set debian 3.0 r5 (= woody revision 5). This has definitely nothing to do with development of the new installer of sarge, so you

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2005 14:14 To: Jatin Patel Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot Subject: Re: boot problems Il giorno ven, 20-05-2005 alle 11:27 +0100, Jatin Patel ha scritto: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they we

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno ven, 20-05-2005 alle 11:27 +0100, Jatin Patel ha scritto: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. > > Unfortunately when i out disk 1 into the computer boots up this is the > message "attempting to boot from hard disk", "LI", "

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Jatin Patel ha escrit, a 20/05/05 12:27: | hello, | | I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were | ISO images. | | Unfortunately when i out disk 1 into the computer boots up this is the | message "attempting to boot fro

boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
hello,   I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were ISO images.   Unfortunately when i out disk 1 into the computer boots up this is the message "attempting to boot from hard disk", "LI", "attemtempting to boot from cd rom".   Any help.   Debian 3.04 installs fr

Re: Sarge testing 2.6 boot problems

2005-01-07 Thread Jordi
Hello John. My english is not very good so. I have used for two years debian woody, in this time I have not problems booting 2.4 customized kernels. Some months ago, I have changed to Sarge, and since then, I have not been able to boot 2.6 kernels, with problems very similars to those

(update) HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-28 Thread Ian Meyer
Ian Meyer wrote: Ian Meyer wrote: Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-27 Thread Ian Meyer
Ian Meyer wrote: Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste any

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Meyer
John Smith wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:20, Ian Meyer wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console kernel panic: Attempted to kill init I've seen this a lot while testing debian-installer on DL380's with the 2.6 kernel but they were all related to using gr

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:20, Ian Meyer wrote: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init 424 cannot open dev/console > kernel panic: Attempted to kill init > I've seen this a lot while testing debian-installer on DL380's with the 2.6 kernel but they were all related to using grub as the

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 22:20), Ian Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get our system to boot using > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with > no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and > paste anything since I'm working on the console)

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Meyer
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste anything since I'm w

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get our system to boot using > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp > with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't > cut and paste anything since I'm working

HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-22 Thread Ian Meyer
Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste anything since I'm working on the console) pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init

Re: 30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. But I looked like a tool having to do that. What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Several people tol

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:55:27PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm trying to understand Grub as well. I finally found out how to make a > boot disk from the FAQ (see link). The Grub project calls this the > "legacy" version (0.9x). > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html > > T

30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

2004-11-28 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. > >But I looked like a tool having to do that. > > What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean? I talked about this a year ago. Several people told me with ch

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: William Ballard wrote: Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make s

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which

Re: Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 00:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: > > 1) Boot from the Woody CD. > 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / > 3) Execute a shell > 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right > places in /boot. > 5) E

Fixing boot problems with grub

2004-11-27 Thread William Ballard
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which would Lilo it up. Tod

Re: boot problems with grub

2004-10-01 Thread Jonathan
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan wrote: > I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues > with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25). > My problem is the following: > > I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I >

Re: boot problems with grub

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan wrote: > I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues > with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25). > My problem is the following: > > I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I > f

boot problems with grub

2004-10-01 Thread Jonathan
I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25). My problem is the following:   I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I found that emule had failed and shut down my computer. When I turned it

Re: Sarge testing 2.6 boot problems

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:52:02PM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > I've tried installing a custom modularised kernel version 2.6.5 on Debian > Sarge testing. I'm using ext3 filesystem and compiled it directly into > the kernel along with ReiserFS sypport (I read you need it in order to > avo

Sarge testing 2.6 boot problems

2004-05-18 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hello, I've tried installing a custom modularised kernel version 2.6.5 on Debian Sarge testing. I'm using ext3 filesystem and compiled it directly into the kernel along with ReiserFS sypport (I read you need it in order to avoid an initrd image). Everytime it tries to boot the new kernel I get

usb-storage boot problems

2004-02-02 Thread Tonda Míšek
Hi all, I have following problem with my usb-storage (i-disc) device: 1. scenario: a) boot b) plug-in device result: all is as expected - device is found and automatically mounted by my hotplug script 2. scenario: a) plug-in device b) boot result: boot messages say that device is found, but then

Re: 2.4.21 kernel boot problems

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
Hi, you should always run make oldconfig after upgrading your kernel. regards Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.21 kernel boot problems

2003-08-14 Thread Tim McDaniel
Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you should always run make oldconfig after upgrading your kernel. I was worried about doing that because I saw a statement that "make oldconfig" can do much prompting. But as you suggested, I did it. There *were* a lot of prompts, and there wasn't al

2.4.21 kernel boot problems

2003-08-07 Thread tmcd
I've been trying to upgrade from 2.4.18 to 2.4.21 for several days. I used the kernel-source package for the latest 2.4.21 kernel (-3, I think). I finally went thru all the screens in "menu xconfig" -- I was astonished, by the way, at the things that were "n" by default rather than "m". I includ

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
a few ideas to try: - uncomment lba32 and comment out linear - check to make sure your kernel is at /vmlinuz and not /boot/vmlinuz - compare the differences between your floppie's lilo.conf (if it uses lilo) and that in /etc - in case you haven't run lilo from the cmdline after making each chang

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
#lba32 linear boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 prompt timeout=150 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=Linux-2.4.14 read-only optional # /etc/fstab: static file s

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Joshua Lee
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf > and I have also run liloconfig. Any suggestion? If lba32 instead of linear doesn't work as

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lance On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, sean finney wrote: > could you post your lilo.conf and fstab? > > sean > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > > I have tried

Re: boot problems

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
could you post your lilo.conf and fstab? sean On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf > and I have also run liloconfig. Any

boot problems

2003-01-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. The boot process stops at "L" with no error. I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf and I have also run liloconfig. Any suggestion? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Boot problems

2003-01-06 Thread Rijn
Dear Sir, Use loadlin multiboot via a small dospartition < 1024 to boot Debian 2.2 and Redhat 8.0 Pentium III with Asus CUSL-2 C. both works perfect But after installing Woody 3.0 with a 2.4x kernel and set the boot kernel in the dos partition as normal I can't boot anymore with loadlin, it's s

boot problems

2002-03-21 Thread Antoon
hello, i've tried to intall debian on my computer but it hangs after boot up. i have a amd 1100 on a msi 266 board, when booting from cd it reconized all the hardware and after that there is a message "there is no microbus channel" , the rest i can't read because it runs on to fast, after t

Boot problems after adding and removing soundcard

2002-01-18 Thread Daniel Oppenheim
Hi, I'm resending this message with new column widths - I forgot Outlook was so crap...sorry :) A couple of days ago i installed a new Soundblaster 128 pci into my Debian 2.2r3 system. When I rebooted the system I received the message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03

Boot problems after adding and removing soundcard

2002-01-16 Thread dan . oppenheim
A couple of days ago i installed a new Soundblaster 128 pci into my Debian 2.2r3 system. When I rebooted the system I received the message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 when booting and, obviously, the system hung. After removing the card the system again booted nor

Re: Strange boot problems.

2001-12-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:43:25PM +, Jason Wood wrote: :All I need to do now is to figure out how to mount the root partition as read :only, so that I can run fsck on it manually, back to google I go... mount -o remount,ro / after fsck either reboot or: mount -o remount,rw / HTH, -Jon

Re: Strange boot problems.

2001-12-30 Thread Jason Wood
On Sunday 30 December 2001 4:36 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:03:00PM +, Jason Wood wrote: > :# ln /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 vmlinuz.old > :ln: creating hard link `vmlinuz.old' to `/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17': > : Invalid cross-device link > > Not clear on your large

Re: Strange boot problems.

2001-12-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:03:00PM +, Jason Wood wrote: :# ln /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 vmlinuz.old :ln: creating hard link `vmlinuz.old' to `/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17': Invalid :cross-device link Not clear on your larger problems, but this bit I can. You're trying to make a "hard" link whi

Strange boot problems.

2001-12-30 Thread Jason Wood
Hi, When I came to try and boot Linux today, I hit into a strange problem, which I can't really understand, and am not sure how I managed to get Linux working again. I apologise for the vagueness of some of the errors here. As far as I am aware, this is what happened: I turn the computer on, l

Re: boot problems

2001-12-29 Thread Dan Owens
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:05 am, Paul wrote: > I have a debian system on kernel 2.2.17 hehe > > I get an error on boot > > kernel panic No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel > > It became unbootable after an apt-get upgrade > Any Ideas ? > Chances are it is looking for a line lik

boot problems

2001-12-29 Thread Paul
I have a debian system on kernel 2.2.17 hehe I get an error on boot kernel panic No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel It became unbootable after an apt-get upgrade Any Ideas ? Regards Paul

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote: ... | I guess, both Linux and Windows likes to have their boot drive as | drive 1 (0x80). What you are doing is fiddling with the partition type in the partition table. If you make your linux partition a "hidden" partition, then window

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-11 Thread Arnout Bruinsma
According to Roderick W.Smith's "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook": Both DOS and Windows9x must boot from a primary partition on the first physical disk or from a floppy disk.although the most basic components of DOS and Windows9x must boot from C: , it is possible to install the bulk of b

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-10 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:11:14PM +0100, Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen wrote: > David Raeker-Jordan, > > other=/dev/hda1 > > label=win > > table=/dev/hda > > > > other=/dev/hdb1 > > label=winbak > > map-drive = 0x80 > > to = 0x81 > > map-dri

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen
David Raeker-Jordan, > other=/dev/hda1 > label=win > table=/dev/hda > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=winbak > map-drive = 0x80 > to = 0x81 > map-drive = 0x81 > to = 0x80 > table=/dev/hdb But, does this work if you _don't_ have a copy of

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