Re: lenny boot problem
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:11 +0000, Christian Koerner a écrit :
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +0000, Christian Koerner a écrit :
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
On boot :
ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0
list of all partitions:
... # I don't remember the line, and the last one is :
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown
block (8,33)
Looks like it can't find the initrd image.
How many HDDs have you in your system?
3 : sda, sdb (etch) and sdc (lenny)
Can you boot into Etch or does it fail too?
The boot of etch is OK (lilo).
What filesystem do you use for lenny?
ext3 :
1. it's visible on /etc/fstab , and
2. On etch, I mounted /dev/sdc1 (='/' lenny) on :
debian:~# stat -f /mnt/wd01/
File: "/mnt/wd01/"
ID: 0 Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 35325708 Free: 34536368 Available: 32741908
Inodes: Total: 8978432 Free: 8879709
I just had a look at the man page for lilo as my lilo knowledge is not so fresh anymore.
The man page says:
loader=chain-loader
This specifies the chain loader that should be used. By default /boot/chain.b is used. The chain loader must be specified if booting from a device other than the first hard or floppy disk.
Do you use lilo also for etch? If so, can you send your lilo.conf from the etch installation.
In your lilo.conf I would remove any options with "*bmp* and the "install" option.
Yes, and result : the boot problem subsists.
Had you a chance to disconnect drive sda & sdb as I would keep it as simple as possible. Hence remove also any options with bmp and the install option in your lilo configuration.
I did, and the problem subsists too (1 drive only and no bmp or install options).
When you tested with the Lenny HDD, did you change your lilo.conf before? So all /dev/sdc devices pointed to /dev/sda?
And a strange thing :
- The rescue mode invited me to mount /dev/sda1 on '/' , normal, but...
- df prints /dev/sdc1/ (and not sda1) as '/' ??
- Changing /etc/fstab or SATA connectors on my drive didn't change anything.
Can you please send the output of mount and df when you use one disk only.
On what HDD/partiton did you install lilo?
On sdc. I tried sda, but the problem subsist.
Do you boot directly into Lilo or do you use another bootloader that starts Lilo?
Lilo starts first.
Another thing I saw :
On boot, an error/warning occurs :
[ [0.260762 PCI ] cannot alocate ressource region 0 for device
0000:00:00:0
I am not sure for the quite text (it goes fast, but :
- The first number is correct,
- 'region' is '0' and
- 'device' is "a lot of" 0.
debian:/home/amel# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 System
Controller (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 AGP Bridge
(rev 13)
My TYAN Tiger K8W (S2875) mainboard seems to be supported.
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Tyan/Tiger+K8W+(S2875)
Thanks, regards,
Amel
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