Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded
Hi,
Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:.
> > BTW, is there any reason why not install Etch from floppy instead of
> > Sarge?
>
> No, none -- I thought I'd checked that. Actually, I think what actually
> happened is that I found the sarge link first, checked for etch, found
> it and then must have pasted the wrong one into the email -- Doh!
>
> Sorry for any wasted time. Installing from Etch floppies would be much
> more sensible.
So, I made a new try with installing Etch and then upgrading to Lenny.
The first step, installing Etch worked fine, booting from Etch floppies
and the installing from a Etch netinst cd.
Then I upgraded to Lenny, according to the Lenny release notes in
three steps:
apt-get install apt aptitude
aptitude safe-upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade
No problems so far, upgrade completed without errrors or
any glitches, but the new kernel was unable to boot
(more exactly spoken: cannot find the root filesystem).
It's an 2.6.26 kernel from debian linux image package
(linux-image-2.6.26-486).
System boot hangs at "Waiting for root filesystem ..." and
then the debug shell comes up.
The problem is: there are no ide related modules loaded, only
some ACPI modules are loaded.
Doing "modprobe ide_generic" makes the harddisk available, and
closing the shell with exit let's the system boot continue fine.
Can anyone tell me, why this happens?
Should I file a bugreport? Against which package?
Holger
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