On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:21:19 +0200, "Daniel Baumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > sorry for the late answer...
No problem; thank you for answering! > > > The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R50e. > > beeing a longtime thinkpad user, i'm actually surprised. thinkpads in > general work extremly well with debian (or linux), however, i think can > test that the cd on a R50 next week. Well, I chose the Thinkpad because they do work so well with Linux. I have had Debian Etch installed on it for some time, and it works great. > > > First of all, there was no net connection. Udev had > > renamed eth0 to eth1 and there was no entry for eth1 in > > /etc/network/interfaces. > > this has been already reported by a couple of people, and is a really > strange (it's a bug, but i don't know yet the exact cause for it). > > > Also, it couldn't mount my USB thumbdrive. > > could you elaborate on this? how did you try to mount them? did you get > an error message? I should have said that it didn't mount my thumbdrive. I was expecting it to be mounted automatically; that's what I'm accustomed to. Because of the issue of not being to boot the laptop with the Live CD again, I didn't finish investigating the thumbdrive issue. I did boot my desktop machine with the Live CD, and was able to successfully mount the thumbdrive by hand just now. So it's not a problem after all. Sorry for the noise. > > > So I thought I'd reboot the Live CD to get a clean start > > for preparing a bugreport. But this time I got a kernel panic > > on trying to mount the root filesystem. And it wasn't just > > a transient error. I've tried probably six or eight more > > times, and it's always the same. > > really strange. since we an exclude the fact, that the software has > changed between the reboots, could you retry with a new media? that's > the only thing i can imagine.. I did that already. I first burned a CD-RW with my fairly new SATA DVD burner. That was the disk that worked once and then not again. Then I used my old, reliable IDE Plextor CD burner and burned a CD-R and that disk didn't work either. That CD-R has successfully booted several times on my desktop machine. > > > Any ideas? If there's anything more I can do to > > help with this issue, let me know. I'm not subscribed to > > the list, so CC-ing me on any replies would be appreciated! > > hmm.. did you use persistency or something like that? did you had an usb > stick plugged into while booting? I'm not sure what you mean by persistency. The only thing plugged into the laptop was a power cord and network cable. Just now I had the idea to try another Live CD I have on hand--Kanotix. It didn't work either, and failed with a similar error message. So it's probably an issue specific to this one laptop. But I wouldn't think it's a hardware problem, as the current installation of Debian on the harddrive is working fine. Strange. Anyway, thanks a lot for taking the time to respond! James Dietrich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely differentÂ… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
