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Bug#278462: Debian Installation Report: Kernel Panic



On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Frans Pop wrote:

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 05:13, Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:
The installation went ok. The problem is that the kernel doesn't boot.
The messages are:

  Cannot open root device "hdb5" or 03:45
  Please append a correct "root=" boot option
  Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:45

The line I'm using to boot from GRUB is

  kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5

Well, if you don't really know how to configure grub manually, you should
let the installer set it up for you.

I was afraid the installer would overwrite GRUB's menu.lst.

The correct config to boot Debian would be something like:
title           Debian Sarge (hdb5)
root            (hd1,4)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686 root=/dev/hdb5 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-686
boot

This is assuming you did _not_ select your existing /boot partition during
partitioning. If you did, the config should probably be something like:
title           Debian Sarge (hdb5)
root            (hd0,5)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686 root=/dev/hdb5 ro
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-686
boot

Thank you! That solved the problem.

2) About the intalation of GRUB: I had GRUB already installed. In this
case, the installer is not very "polite". I had to abort the
instalation of GRUB, the installer issued one or two warnings, and then
I was taken back to the menu, without knowing if it was ok to skip the
GRUB instalation or if the instalation had been compromised in any way.
As it turned out it hadn't, but I got the feeling I was doing something
wrong. That I might be screwing up somehow.

Using <go back> is not the same as aborting. If you don't want to install
a bootloader, just use <go back> to get to the menu and select the option
to 'continue without bootloader'.

Oh, so <go back> means "back to the menu" and not "back to the last step"... good to know.

One last question: is there any problem in sharing the swap partition betwen RedHat and Debian?

Thanks again,
Thiago




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