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Re: Needs help with Kernel upgrade



On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:19:43AM -0500, Bruce DeGrasse wrote:
> Need Kernel advice and help.
> 
> I currently have idepci kernel installed on a Pentium II 350 mh, 6 GB (hda) 
> and 1 GB (hdb), 320 MB mem system.  This is from my initial install.  Since 
> then I have moved to Unstable and upgrade periodically.  I would like to 
> upgrade the kernel and  selected kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 for my upgrade as 
> this seemed a good match.  This kernel has been installed and initrd has been 
> entered into lilo.conf.   When I reboot the system the sequence gets to the 
> following spot.
> 
> Checking all file systems
> fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> fsck.ext2: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda6
> Possibly non-existent or swap device?
> /dev/hdb1: clean, 2189/208896 files, 242785/833584 blocks (check in 4 mounts)
> fsck failed.  Please repair manually.
> Control-D will exit from this shell .... and so one
> 
> From the DF command it looks like the following partitions are not getting 
> mounted.
> /dev/hda6 /home
> /dev/hdb1 /home/data

Sounds like 2.6.8 isn't recognizing your /dev/hda6.

Is it listed in the Partition check: message?

Send your dmesg, perhaps there is a kernel error message.

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