On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:06:44PM +0000, Tom Kuiper wrote: > > From: "J M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ... The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin > > off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to > > load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and retry, or eject > > the disk and press 'restart'. > It sounds to me like your hard disk has failed. You might try using a > rescue floppy and see if you can mount that disk. Maybe you can > recover something. Actually, he's booting off a floppy now. Note the reference to a boot disk. It's enormously more likely that the floppy has a problem, than a hard drive, just based on relative MTBF. > > The only thing that I have done wrong is accidentally ejecting a disk > > without unmounting ... > I don't think ejecting an unmounted disk is the cause. I've done that too. But he ejected a *mounted* disk, not unmounted. JM: you need a new boot floppy. The problem CANNOT be your hard disk, since the system isn't getting past the kernel load. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
