RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
It's a 1999 Dell box with a stock ide controller. I've never had a problem
with linux recognizing it before and it shows up in the boot messages before
the kernel panic, so I'm assuming that I'm okay here. My old kernel (potato
vanilla install v2.2.19) works just fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:52 AM
To: Stephen Nosal
Cc: 'Debian "User List (E-mail)'"
Subject: RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
What type of controller is the hard drive on at the moment? It would
appear that nothing is available to read your root partition. I get this
everytime I forget to compile in my scsi drivers instead of making
modules, perhaps ide disk support is slightly lacking in your kernel.
What are you booting from partition wise? Does your old kernel work?
--mike
On 06 Aug 2001 10:45:18 -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote:
> Mike -
>
> The 2.4 kernel has been installed, boot floppy created, and the reboot
fails
> with a kernel panic that it can't find root at hda2. Root is located at
> /dev/hda2. There is no boot prompt to pass the process additional
> parameters.
>
> - Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: Debian User List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
>
>
> What does the error say? Has the new 2.4 kernel been installed and
> booted? <raid comments removed as requested>
>
> --mike
>
> On 06 Aug 2001 10:18:49 -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote:
> > Folks -
> >
> > I've been having a terrible time attempting to upgrade my perfectly good
> > potato installation to the new woody
> > distribution including the 2.4 kernel. Each time I attempt to install
the
> > kernel, I get a statement regarding initrd, and the upgrade fails.
> >
> > I've looked high and low for documentation on this upgrade, but have
> failed
> > miserably in finding any. Can someone please point me to documentation
to
> > get me over this hurdle. (yes, I've seen the potato docs to upgrade
potato
> > to the 2.4 kernel but I'm looking to get to a full-blown woody
> > installation.)
> >
> > All help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Stephen L. Nosal
> > New York, NY
> >
> >
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