Hi List,
without any recognizable trigger (perhaps an unnoticed upgrade by aptitude?), I
am no longer able to boot from from Dell Dimension 8400. I had the latest
Debian testing installed, and a 2.6.17 kernel.
The message appears:
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free
ide0: ports already in use skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free
ide1: ports already in use skipping probe
Done
Begin: Waiting for root file system ....
(...The boot process continues here a bit and then gets as far as..)
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Done
Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
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I am not sure if the usb module is part of the problem, it is installed. Also,
the computer has a SATA hard disk, so I tried replacing hda1 with sda1 in
grub's menu.lst, but that did not help. I can start the computer with Knoppix
5.0 with no problems. I have spent the last day looking in Google and trying
various modifications with no success, any tips/ideas/help would be most
welcome!
Thanks, Peter
Dr. med. Peter Robinson, MSc.
Institut für Medizinische Genetik
Universitätsklinikum Charité
Humboldt-Universität
Augustenburger Platz 1
13353 Berlin
Phone: ++49-30-450 569124
Fax: ++49-30-450 569915
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http://www.charite.de/ch/medgen/robinson
