I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
- kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge
installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert
this box to a dual boot box.
boot: rescue=/dev/hdb5 failed.
During the load
"Partition Check
hdd
hde: hde1
hdf: hdf1,hdf2 < hdf5, hdf6, hdf7, hdf8 >"
so I tried.
boot: rescue=/dev/hdf5
which stopped with
"Warning: Unable to open and initial console
Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing an init= option to the
kernel"
I don't know why the letters changed and what init option I should use.
The hard drives are master and slave on ide 1. There are two
connectors, ide 1 and ide 2 on the motherboard.
The motherboard is KA3 MVP and the processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3800.
(Note: Only the Debian Sarge disc knows what's out there. My Knoppix
CD, my bbc-2.1 CD, my Damn Small Linux CD and two Debian boot floppies
all fail.)
How can I regain access to my Debian system?
Tom George
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