Greetings, I just tried installing Lenny RC1 amd64 (business card and kde) on a Lenovo Thinkpad W500. I made all of the filesystems XFS, including "/" (I do not have a separate /boot partition). Upon rebooting, I got the message:
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. List of all partitions: No filesystem could mount root, tried: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1) When I reinstalled and made "/" ext3, it worked fine. I have also been fiddling around with Lenny Beta2 and daily snapshots. Lenny Beta2 can not detect my ethernet card (Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection). The amd64 daily snapshot (Nov 6) has the same issue with XFS on "/". The i386 daily snapshot (Nov 10) does not. However, the i386 daily snapshot gui install gave me a strange warning Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 91 on CPU 0. You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue. Besides that message, the gui install seemed to work fine. In the course of all this, I noticed a few oddities about repartitioning. There was a partition that I wanted to expand to the rest of the disk. That would make the partition 178.49 GB. But the partitioner displayed 178.5. If I tried to make it 178.5, then it complained that I was going off of the end of the disk. Even if I just specified "max", it still said I was trying to go past the end of the disk. At one point, I managed to get into an infinite loop where it would tell me about an error, but clicking "go back" or "continue" kept bringing up the same errors. I do not know how I got into that situation, but I thought I should mention it. The Thinkpad W500 has switchable ATI graphics (FireGL v5700). In the BIOS, I can set it to integrated, discrete, or switchable. For the "ati" and "radeon" drivers, I have to set it to discrete or the drivers will not find the card. This seems to be well known to google, so I only mention it here for completeness. As an aside, I never could get the fglrx drivers to work in 32 or 64 bit. It would just blank the screen. All in all, the experience was not so bad. Much easier than last time [1]. I still do not have wireless working (Intel 5300). I have to compile a 2.6.27 kernel for that. The only real bug that I have to report is that running with XFS on the boot partition on amd64 does not work. As a wishlist item, it would be nice if the partitioner handles ntfs partitions better. I wanted to move my original windows partition to the end. I could create a new partition, but I could not make it ntfs. I tried to copy all of the data from the partition, but it did not comply. So I ended up just deleting windows off of this machine. So maybe it is not a bug after all ;) If you have any questions, please let me know. I am not subscribed to this list. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00034.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
