Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:36:02AM +0100, Bob wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snipped...] > > >most likely you don't have the right modules loaded. can you insmod > >them from the busybox shell and then try init 6 (also, I think you > >only need init 2 in debian, but you can check that

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-19 Thread Bob
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snipped...] most likely you don't have the right modules loaded. can you insmod them from the busybox shell and then try init 6 (also, I think you only need init 2 in debian, but you can check that by looking at /etc/rc2.d). It was from a fresh netinstall with t

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Bob wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snipped...] > > >you're being dropped into busybox, which is a limited shell, but you > >CAN do some things. can you mount any of your disks from there? if so, > >turn on boot logging: add or change /etc/defa

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Bob
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snipped...] you're being dropped into busybox, which is a limited shell, but you CAN do some things. can you mount any of your disks from there? if so, turn on boot logging: add or change /etc/default/bootlogd to say BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes. Then you can read /var/log/

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:36:49AM +0100, Bob wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: > >Bob, > > > >I've been working with a couple of SCSI based systems recently, with the > >testing release (etch). Possible issues could be: are your SCSI disks > >on one host bus adapter; do you have any USB (or other in

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Bob
Bob McGowan wrote: Bob, I've been working with a couple of SCSI based systems recently, with the testing release (etch). Possible issues could be: are your SCSI disks on one host bus adapter; do you have any USB (or other interfaces) that set up SCSI emulation mode, and if so, do you have a

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob, I've been working with a couple of SCSI based systems recently, with the testing release (etch). Possible issues could be: are your SCSI disks on one host bus adapter; do you have any USB (or other interfaces) that set up SCSI emulation mode, and if so, do you have any devices actually

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/05/06 15:49), Bob wrote: > I've got a box that was running Sarge, but I wanted to upgrade it to > Etch. apt-get dist-upgrade failed due to lack of disk space, so I > decided to do a complete reinstall from a netinst CD. > > While I was at it I bunged a couple of 18Gb SCSI drives into the ma

Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-10 Thread Bob
I've got a box that was running Sarge, but I wanted to upgrade it to Etch. apt-get dist-upgrade failed due to lack of disk space, so I decided to do a complete reinstall from a netinst CD. While I was at it I bunged a couple of 18Gb SCSI drives into the machine to go along with the existing 36Gb