Well, I guessed correctly again..I ran aptitude install
linux-image-2.6-686, it installed 2.6.32, and X came up just like before.
Now to get the system upgraded to testing.any
suggestions/recommendations beyond DON'T DO IT!...;-)
Mark
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips
wrote
OK, progress has been made
1. fsck said both internal drives were OK, but i forced it to run anyway. No
errors
2. re-ran grub-install for the 5th time (?) and still no changereboot
goes right back to grub.
3. discovered that I could boot into 2.6.26 if I used the initrd-2.6.26.bak
file. So
>>> 2.2.26: cant read the initrd file
>>> 2.2.22: waiting for root file system
>>> The wait timed out, and got this error: /dev/sda5 does not exist.
This is what I'd expect to see if the kernel didn't contain support for the
SATA or SCSI chipset for the controller where the first disk lives. This
Maybe boot up a live CD and verify the partitioning is what you thought you
had and the contents are as you expect? Also, I note that in one part of
the message you refer to hda5 and in another you say the message you got
referred to sda5.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mark Phillips
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I have made some progress When I use these parameters at the grub
prompt, the machine boots. X is dead, and so is mysql...not sure why, yet.
However, I cannot change menu.lst to rebootI always get tossed out to
the grub menu.
grub> root(hd0,msdos5) //msdos5 comes from tab completion a
I have made some progress When I use these parameters at the grub
prompt, the machine boots. X is dead, and so is mysql...not sure why, yet.
However, I cannot change menu.lst to rebootI always get tossed out to
the grub menu.
grub> root(hd0,msdos5) //msdos5 comes from tab completion a
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Have you tried rebooting from a live CD, chroot-ing into the existing drive
> and re-doing a grub-install?
>
How would I do that?
Mark
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Have you tried rebooting from a live CD, chroot-ing into the existing
drive and re-doing a grub-install?
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I have an older Dell Optiplex GX260 running Debian lenny. It has worked for
years as a desktop and a small web server. At one point one of the
integrated IDE disk controller channels died, so I installed a new disk
controller card, a Silicon Image 0680 ATA133 and it worked out of the box
with the t
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