<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.4"> </HEAD> <BODY> hi Derek,<BR> <BR> In fact, I installed via apt-get the kernel image 2.6.8 (for i686) but I have the Kernel Panic error for this image... I changed in the grub boot loader /dev/hdax to /dev/sdax but nothing happened. In fact, can I change from 2.4 with i386 to 2.6 with i686 or not ? The error code is 431 with message indicating that /dev/console can't be found ... I make MAKEDEV console but nothing changed<BR> <BR> Pierre<BR> <BR> <BR> Le lundi 25 avril 2005 à 10:26 -0300, Derek Broughton a écrit : <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">On Friday 22 April 2005 14:27, khoueiry wrote:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hello everybody,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> Being a fun of Debian, I want to install the sarge release comming with</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> a Kernel 2.6.8... The problem is that by rebooting with expert26 or</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> linux26, when i get to the partitionning task, I get the error that no</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> hard drive is detected... I have an Dell Inspiron 6000 with ATA hard</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> drive.. I've seen that somebody before me faced the same problem and he</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> installed the 2.4 kernel instead.. In fact, I prefer to start with the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> 2.6 but above all this I want to know, if their is a method to start</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> with 2.4 without installing the 2.4 before....</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I can't say what exactly you need to do - I've only put ubuntu on this I6000, </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">which got everything right by default - but the hard drive is SATA and </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">recognized as a SCSI. So the drive identifier is /dev/sda</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">--</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">derek</FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>