On 2005-06-14 @ 22:05:13 (week 24) Bob Isaac wrote: > > The system still won't recognize the harddisk as a > > boot device. > > Is Grub calling your initrd during boot? > > i.e. is there a line similar to this: > > "initrd /boot/initrd.img" > > in your grub/menu.lst file beneath the entry for the kernel you are trying to > boot?
Hi Bob and all others that tried to help, Thanks for taking the time! It is appreciated very much. Meanwhile the problem has been solved. It was a hardware defect after all. I went back to the shop [1] and they replaced the faulty parts without any hassle at all. Just to make sure everything was OK this time I did a barebones install on the spot. Everything proved to work just fine after the replacements were installed. It still did when I came home I am glad to say. By the way that was a fun thing to do: they do sell this machine with SUSE instead of that other OS if requested, but when I started installing Debian they admitted to know close to nothing about *nix (but they were willing to learn). I found out the company behind the shop is German, so that probably explains why they do offer GNU/Linux. Compared to the Germans we have some catching up to do here in Holland when it comes to the use of FOSS. [1] I bought this machine at ikbenstil.nl (the Dutch version of ichbinleise.de). They are not the cheapest, but they make good on their promise of silent computing and judging from my experience the last couple of days their service at very good indeed. So for those interested in vendors with quality service I can recommend them. Thanks again all! Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
