Ok, I ran apt-get under console, so I did see it rebuild initramfs, which twigged me to what the problem might be. When I say no devices work I mean that no external drives mount, no printers are recognised, wireless card is dead. Nothing. So no userland devices, is I guess my point. Let me know what to do re: /etc/udev and I'll give it a shot. I admit my ignorance there.
best wishes, Adam On 7/30/07, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, Adam Bartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick response. Further experimentation has shown that I > can > > get into my system with an old 2.6.16 kernel that I have on there, but > that > > no devices work other than the internal drives - such as when I try to > start > I do not know what "no devices work" means. > Anyway, are you sure that you updated all the conffiles in /etc/udev/? > Are you sure that your initramfs has been rebuilt? > > > a network device. I dual boot, so maybe if you can tell me what a useful > > logfile might be for you, I may be able to mount the partition under > macos > > and send it on. > Nothing is logged to disk until /var is mounted rw. > > -- > ciao, > Marco >
