On 04/07/2011 08:04 PM, brian wrote:
HI,
I tried upgrading my SLug to Squeeze using Martin Michlmayr's
tarball. I guess everything
went OK (I have installed Debian a few times now). After reboot
the SLug goes through the
flashing led things, switches all Leds off except the ethernet
led, flashes a few times, the
HDD is accessed a few times and that it, nothing else.
In the past I had this problem with discrepancies between the
flashed data and the partitions
on the HDD, using UUIDS or labels or devices in FSTAB did not fit
to what had been flashed.
>> The root partition has to be the 2nd primary
partition (i.e. /dev/sdb2 in this example) since the
root device is hard-coded in the ramdisk.
If I understand correctly, the bootable partition must be the
second one, other than that?
Here is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type>
<options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0
1
#/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda3 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda4 none swap sw 0 0
/boot stuff is all under / after I untarred the tarball.
Here is the ouput from fdisk:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 * 13 523 4104607+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 524 30390 239906677+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 30391 30401 88357+ 82 Linux swap
/ Solaris
Disk mounted on another box of course.
Thanks in advance
Brian
Hmm,
I got it to work now. I think the problem was the the partitions on
the HDD were
not in the correct order. I had corrected them with Fdisk (see the
display above)
but probably not written the changes to disk. Later on I saw them
out of order
again, so corrected them again, and even wrote them to disk, and it
worked.
Thanks to Martin M. for the tarball.
Cheers Brian
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