On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, gcowling wrote: > I'm stuck -- and would be very grateful if someone can help me. > > I have had Red Hat for some time, but wanted to put up Debian. > I set aside a second disk, used APC magazine disk. It installed the > kernel, and then (not later as in RH) re-booted. > I boot through System Commander--the kernel started booting, but after > sveral screens there was: > kernel panic, no INIT ... > I checked the disk, and there seemed to be no /etc/rc.d files--I don't > know if that is relevant. > > so, I have 20 G just sitting there ... > what am i oding wrong--or just not doing?? > > prevenient gratitude .. > > Geoffrey Cowling
If it's an older BIOS/mobo combination you might find lilo can't find the kernel. Since you already have a RedHat system installed, copy the kernel debian installed into RedHat's /boot area under a different name and edit /etc/lilo.conf (then type 'lilo') or edit /boot/grub/menu.1st to start the debian system. Oh yeah and no /etc/rc.d files is a problem :-( -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
