On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:08:35PM -0600, David Vanfleet wrote: > > > Luk Claes wrote: > > David Vanfleet wrote: > > > Hi, I'm trying to get Debian (Lenny) to recognize 6 Gig of memory on a > Dell PE 2650 server. I installed the basic 5.02a Debian system with > just > a minimal install then I installed the 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel so > it > will see all the memory. When I boot into the bigmem kernel it fails > to > boot, the errors I get are: > > WARNING boot device may be renamed. Try root=/dev/hda3 > ... > ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist > > > Did you try with changing the root device for the bigmem kernel to > /dev/hda3? > > If you use grub for booting you could do that by pressing 'e' (for edit > on the line with the bigmem kernel) and afterwards pressing 'b' (for > boot) while in the grub menu (to just try it) or updating > /boot/grub/menu.lst (for the bigmem kernel) and running update-grub > before rebooting into the bigmem kernel. > > > > Thanks for your response, I did try what you suggested but got the same error, > except it says that "/dev/hda3 does not exist". Looking in /dev there is no > sda* or hda*, there only an hda which I think is the CD drive. When I boot to > the default Kernel then /dev/sda3 exists and is used to boot the kernel. Any > other ideas?
Does this system use the aacraid driver? If so, please try testing the kernel from lenny-proposed-updates (2.6.26-19). -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
