On Sunday 31 July 2005 19.55, ZeeGeek wrote: > I did my first Debian installation yesterday and met the same problem when > I did a reboot. So I did some searches in > www.linuxquestions.org<http://www.linuxquestions.org>and saw one post > suggesting that it might be the initrd line in > grub.conf. then I changed "initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8" to "initrd > (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda9" and everything worked ever > since. I thought it was root=/dev/hda9 which tells initrd where to look for > some of the files so that if you missed it, it would never know where to > locate /dev/console. > > On 7/31/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 18:37 2005-07-31, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >On dim, 2005-07-31 at 15:14 +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > I have installed a Debian 2.6.8 standard kernel from the Debian ftp > > > > server > > > > > > using Dselect. But it won't boot up my system! :-( HELP! :-) > > > > > > > > This is the output: > > > > > > > > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file > > > > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > > > > > > > The kernel is precompiled btw. > > > > My theory is that I need to install the console device package, but I > > > > can't > > > > > > find this anywhere. :-( Do I need to create > > > > > > the console device, maybe? Hmm... > > > > > > > I'm not a member of the list, so please use the cc. > > > > > >Did you specify the right initrd.img to use to your bootloader (lilo or > > >grub)? > > > > > >-- > > >strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Well.. I haven't specified anything. Like I said > > before, I installed a precompiled > > package from my Debian system using Dselect. I have several kernels to > > boot > > from and I really would like to get a 2.6 working, because the graphics > > don't > > work 8-(, and the kernel can't find my MX 1000 laser mouse + the standard > > 2.4 kernel can't even find my ATi Radeon(9800XT) card. I'm thinking right > > now > > that before I should switch to Suse instead! But I have been using Debian > > since > > 1999, so I don't really want to change to another distribution unless I > > really > > haveto. This Debian Sarge distribution just > > didn't like my hardware and the cause > > of that was because the netinstall used a 2.4 > > kernel instead of 2.6. Not cool! Before, > > when I ran Woody I had a working system together with a 2.6 kernel which > > I had > > compiled for myself. It was working nice, but then I decided to reformat > > the > > system with Sarge instead. The old system was in a mess, and I didn't > > want to mix the old with the new. > > > > I read something about that there could be missing files in /dev. > > I will check this out later. Right now I'm sitting with WindowsXP, > > again.. I need to switch off the computer and change harddrive since a > > dualboot solution makes it too hot inside the case. :-( Oh > > well, that's another story. :-) > > Interesting to see how many tips I can get in this thread, I'll wait a > > bit.. > > > > Björn
Just wanted to say that I have a fully working system now. Debian Sarge is working fine with my hardware! 8-) But I guess I need to compile myself a kernel despite this, as usual. The 3D graphics is really slow and the sound don't work either. Overall, it feels fast work with and it doesn't surprise me, I have been using Debian for a long, long time. :-) I'm using 2.4.27 and I have also installed the latest drivers from ATi. So 2D graphics is working excellent! I mostly use my system for mail and internet, so there's no panic right now. But in a week or two I'm hoping to test out the demo version of Doom 3 here in Linux. I've understood there was an native version somewhere.. Oh well, that's not important. I use WindowsXP for games, but if the Linux community together with companies such as ATi and nVidia brings out kick ass drivers, then I might switch to Linux totally. Maybe the Windows Longhorn (now called Vista) makes people realise that Windows isn't so well suited for games afterall, when comparing against Linux? Well, I can dream, can't I? :-D Björn
