Re: Rescue for Ruffian doesn't boot
Xavier Montagutelli <Xavier.Montagutelli@gmm.insa-tlse.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> we have a new 21164 533 MHz system, with a Samsung 164 UX2 motherboard,
> 256 Mo RAM, IDE Disk and ATI Rage II video card on the first PCI slot
> (full 64 bit).
>
> Yesterday, we couldn't boot using the debian 2.1 rescue disk for Ruffian.
> Well, it does boot, but stops after unzipping the kernel, after :
Hmm, what milo?
I used the rescuedisk just last week on my Ruffian (but I think its a
bx not ux). Haven't tried ide since, but that should show up much
later if broken.
> #UNZIP (or something like that)
> #################################################################
> #################################
>
> and then nothing happens. We had to use a sort of kernel for RH 5.2 to
> solve the problem (generic kernel from RH 6.0 doesn't work, complaining
> about PYXIS ....). This kernel caused a lot of "paging faults".
>
> Now, with a 2.2.10 newly compiled kernel, it seems to be quite stable.
>
> We were surprised, because we are used to Debian on Intel architecture,
> and we appreciate the stability and the "done the right-way" of the debian
> distribution.
>
> Milo was taken from gatekeeper.
Try the one from the rescuedisk, that worked for me.
MfG,
Goswin
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