Bug#340776: Installation report debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded 22 Nov 2005
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:01:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:40, richard@sheugh.com wrote:
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>
> This seems to be where things went wrong for you. Did you reboot yourself
> (why) or did you correctly finish the installation?
>
It all points to my rebooting myself without running base-config.
Looking back, the smart thing to do at the critical time is to remove
the partition with /home on it from the mount point, run the disk
formats again and run base-config. Then log the results onto a floppy.
On other occasions, I did exactly that, but not this time
> > A search revealed that /dev/hda and /dev/hdd had disappeared,
> > taking with them the /home directories at /dev/hda4. It appeared that
> > the hard disk and DVD-ram were identified by the BIOS but possibly the
> > module was not being loaded into the kernel.
>
> Either that or there may be a conflict between the SATA and other IDE
> drivers where the order in which drivers are loaded is important. You
> will need to check the messages to console and maybe check the initrd to
> see which it is.
>
This is ongoing. I have found that my new kernel build does not need
initrd, so that gets commented out of lilo.conf. Googling for
unknown-block(8,1) was not useful, so I am about to search for
"unknown partition table"
HTH
Richard A Lough
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