On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:59 +0100, Boris Kleibl wrote: > Uff, I solved the problem, but what happened? > > As some days ago the new linux-image-2.6.14 was availlable, I did a > fresh debian sid installation. Booting the system shows the same problem > as mentioned above too. Hmmm! I tried to boot from a KNOPPIX 4.0.2 Live > CD, it started up to the desktop, but showed the harddisk as not > mountable! What the hell ... Perhaps the harddisk has a failure? I > checked the mentioned drive with seagate seatools - all tests succeeded > except the filesystem-test which shows a damaged master boot record. > Strange! I tested the drive with the linux and windows tools not showing > me any errors. So I deleted the vfat partition with windows and then the > reboot with debian/sid 2.6.14 succeeded! Yippee! Now I wrote a new > DOS-FAT on the drive, partitioned and formatted and all is ok. > > What changed between kernel 2.6.12 and kernel 2.6.13/14 so that the > error got evidently?
Hard to say - could've been something in the code itself, or a result of better hardware detection by either initramfs-tools or yaird. Either way, I'm glad your problem went away. Thanks for letting us know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
