Progress: Using Debian Live rescue, was able to mount my volumes, reinstall the
kernel, run update-initramfs and lilo. (Only thing lost was the debian.bmp
which looked gosh-awful on my screen anyway--works without it.)Results, back to
where I was: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot. It loads up, begins the process and then
panics out with "cannot find root device sdb2" (my root partition), offers no
alternatives (2.6.32 did once offer a list of parititons on the previous
computer where this problem started but the could not find the hdb2 it should
have found!). Since, without that bitmap, I have a type-in menu on bootup, I
tried stuff like "2.6.34 append "root=/dev/sdb2"" and variations of that to no
avail.So: How do I fix this thing, step-by-step? The 2.6.34 was compiled with
the newer PATA/SATA driver so will create sdb's rather than hdb's (I would
have no objection going back to 2.6.32 and the hdb's if this be than answer but
that did not either before on this system).In any event, all my volumes are
intact and I can offload to a new disk if I so choose and restart from there
but it would seem it should make no difference.
