Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive

[Hadar Pedhazur]

Oops. Thank you very much. I have installed RH9 on two servers, and 
Xandros on this laptop only, but I've never had to change lilo.conf 
ever, so I didn't realize this was a necessary step, doh!

OK, so I did that, and got the same error, only now on the "correct" 
kernel, namely 2.6.4-1-686.

So, I can boot fine from the Xandros rescue floppy, with the 2.4.22-x1 
kernel, and have complete access to the hard drive. However, I can't 
even boot from the same kernel off the hard drive now, as it hangs in 
the same spot: initializing kernel...

I booted with the "Expert" setting (which passes "single" to the boot 
process), and I think I see what must be going on in the other boot 
failures. I see one "mount" failure, which claims some incorrect type, 
but it continues from there (something in the VFS section).

However, it seems to hang when it gets to "/sbin/init: 347: cannot 
open dev/console: file not found".

The next line (which is the last one where it hangs) says:

Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!

s. keeling wrote:
Did you run lilo before re-booting?  If not, you should boot from CD,
mount your root ptn, run lilo, then re-boot.


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