Re: Official 2.6.8 kernel not booting?

[gape@posta.owca.info]

Quoting Norval Watson <norv@longforest.com>:

> Hi Gasper,
> Which kernel did you use for initial install?
> I have very similar system: amd64 athlon 3000+, nforce3 chipset,
> Seagate sata hd, the motherboard is gigabyte ga-k8ns Pro.
> 2.6.8-1 kernel does not find Seagate SATA HD.
> Are your sound, network and usb drivers working?
> Regards,
> Norv
> >

Yes, everything else works perfectly. network module is forcedeth, 
sound driver
is i810, usb mouse works fine. But -- if it's 2.6.8 -k7 it works, if it's -k8
it doesn't. I'm using this .deb
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8

Hm... I'm thinking ... i first installed i386 and then wanted to install a 64
bit kernel with IA32 support to debootstrap the pure64. Am I going wrong way?

I just checked debian bug tracker for above kernel image and supposedly it has
System.map with 0 byte length -
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281424
Could this be it?

Also Len Sorensen noted there's a missing initrd line in my grub/menu.lst that
might be causing this and could be related to kernel unable to mount 
root. I've
also compiled my own kernel with built in drivers and same happens.

But then could this be due to RAID in bios? (I don't know if it's enabled or
not)

I'm sorry I'm not near the box now, but I'll check this all tomorrow.

Regards,
Gasper Zejn