On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:24:10PM -0700, Mark A. Bell wrote: > --- Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so whats the issue? > > Hi Michael, > > Well, this is embarassing. I have this old IBM P133 that I run Debian > on. I'm a hobbyist, not a professional. Yesterday I had a go at putting > in a second hard drive. There wasn't much room in the case, but I think > I got everything plugged back in right. The machine booted up just fine > so I ran fdisk and then mkfs -t ext2 on the second drive and tried to > reboot. Now it won't boot. I get a lot of complaining messages - E.g.: > > Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card > IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel bus found --> Aborting > Kernel panic - no init found > > Normally I would just reinstall from my CDs, but now I'm stuck. >
can you boot off the debian rescue CD (CD 1 usually works as that, as well as being the first install CD) -- if so then it will run its own init and kernel, and you can manually mount and reformat your hard drives Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
