Re: Boot from SATA + Network

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Jonas Diemer wrote:
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> I get a kernelpanic, saying that the root filesys couldn't be mounted. I 
> guess this is because the sata driver (I believe it is sata_nv) is 
> compiled as a module. Am I correct?

Almost certainly.

> What would you suggest - how should I get my system installed?

Boot from the DFS iso.

  http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs

Among other good stuff this bootable cd image provides a grub boot.
At the grub boot prompt you can provide both the kernel and the
initrd.  The process should go something like this for your /dev/sda3
boot, assuming I transposed things properly for that.

  root (hd0,2)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8 root=/dev/sda3 ro 
  initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-amd64-k8
  boot

Even if that does not work the bootable cd image is useful to further
debugging efforts.  If nothing else you can borrow the kernel and
initrd from that disk and install them to your drive.

Bob