Re: Debian + ndiswrapper == Hair Loss!!
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, overbored wrote:
> I posted to relevant lists. I tried to look for any rules on cross
> posting but found none.
>
> The lines are correct; they were written by update-grub (I think; at
> least that's what I ran). Anyway the exact problem was that it couldn't
> mount the root FS and asked me to make sure the root= parameter was
> correct, which it was (same as the 2.4 kernel's root= parameter).
> Someone in #debian said that means I have a bad kernel build and to
> start over, which I did, but to no avail.
What fs is the root?
No - that's irrelevant. Debian kernels modularise everything, and rely on
initrd to load the modules, so it should work.
You didn't run out of disk in / or /boot, did you?
Mine ran out of disk at some stage, and silently build a bad initrd image,
without complaining. When I did it a second time after removing a bit of
useless cruft (who needs 16megs of /etc/gconf on a box not using gnome?
Bah), it did complain, so it depends on whereabouts in the process it runs
out of disk on whether it dies.
I would have submitted a bug, but unfortunately, not being able to
reproduce it (damn heisenbugs) would make it hard to report.
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