On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:34:16PM +0100, Arndt Georg Alexander Voges wrote:... i then tried a 2.6 kernel image. it skips the ide thing finding the drive. it stops at the very first step of "init". i can use the keyboard though, switching through the consoles.If you're using a woody root image, I suspect that it doesn't like the 2.6 kernel. Have you tried a sarge install using a 2.6 kernel?
I haven't had any trouble with woody and 2.6, other than the swap version, which is easily fixed with mkswap.
Perhaps you could try "init=/bin/sh" on the kernel command line, that might tell us more.
-f