Re: RE: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-06-12 Thread Oguz Berkoz
Hi Balbir, I had the same problem to resolve the 8GB mem issue, on poweredge 2800. I had to recompile the kernel with highmem64 option enabled but after that system does not reboot. Can you please tell me if I am missing any steps: 1. Apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 fakeroot kernel-packag

FW: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Thanks Mike : May be I did not make it clear I want to prepare emergency boot floppy/CD so that on booting from this media, I can get at least root system prompt. 1. I looked at the specified site. I made floppy doing : cd /lib/grub/i386-pc ( I also saw stage1 and stage2 files in /boot/g

Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Thanks Mike for your advice. root fd0 .. This entry added in /boot/grub/menu.lst. GRUB complains about it"Unrecognised device string"; we also tried /dev/fd0...noluck. Although in normal boot cop

RE: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
6 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would > like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine > using OLD kerne

Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine using OLD kernel in case there is problem in booting using new compiled kernel( I have to recompile the kernel using HIGHMEM64G

Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine using OLD kernel in case there is problem in booting using new compiled kernel( I have to recompile the kernel using HIGHME

Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine using OLD kernel in case there is problem in booting using new compiled kernel( I have