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

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:08:35PM -0600, David Vanfleet wrote:
> 
> 
> Luk Claes wrote:
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your response, I did try what you suggested but got the same error,
> except it says that "/dev/hda3 does not exist". Looking in /dev there is no
> sda* or hda*, there only an hda which I think is the CD drive. When I boot to
> the default Kernel then /dev/sda3 exists and is used to boot the kernel. Any
> other ideas?

Does this system use the aacraid driver? If so, please try testing the
kernel from lenny-proposed-updates (2.6.26-19).

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dann frazier