Re: Problems with kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

David Vanfleet wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to get Debian (Lenny) to recognize 6 Gig of memory on a
> Dell PE 2650 server. I installed the basic 5.02a Debian system with just
> a minimal install then I installed the 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel so it
> will see all the memory. When I boot into the bigmem kernel it fails to
> boot, the errors I get are:
> 
>    WARNING boot device may be renamed. Try root=/dev/hda3
>    ...
>    ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist

Did you try with changing the root device for the bigmem kernel to
/dev/hda3?

If you use grub for booting you could do that by pressing 'e' (for edit
on the line with the bigmem kernel) and afterwards pressing 'b' (for
boot) while in the grub menu (to just try it) or updating
/boot/grub/menu.lst (for the bigmem kernel) and running update-grub
before rebooting into the bigmem kernel.

Cheers

Luk