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Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system



On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:50:28AM -0700, lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> On May 4, 6:40 pm, Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:35:29PM -0700, lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Under the (initramfs) prompt, the uname -r reports 2.6.25.
> > what is the output of cat  /proc/partitions, can you
> > see /dev/sda.
> > maybe the driver for you had is not in .25
> >
> 
> Hi, this is the result,
> 
> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>    8     0    8388608 sda
>    8     1     273073 sda1
>    8     2          1 sda2
>    8     5    3060351 sda5
>    8     6    1477948 sda6
>    8     7     273073 sda7
>    8     8     265041 sda8
>    8     9    3036253 sda9
> $ ls -al /dev/sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2008-05-05 02:46 /dev/sda
> $

hi

 was this done whilst trying to boot 2.6.25, if so mount /dev/sda1 and
exit out and initramfs should continue on its way

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