Re: Kernel Panic: "initrd" ?

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Goldman
On 11/20/05, Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:09:23PM -0800, Alex Goldman wrote: > > My self-compiled kernel refuses to boot, saying it can't > > mount/init/access /dev/hda7 (root partition) > > > > I compiled 2.6.14.2

Kernel Panic: "initrd" ?

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Goldman
My self-compiled kernel refuses to boot, saying it can't mount/init/access /dev/hda7 (root partition) I compiled 2.6.14.2 following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, basically cp /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 linux-2.6.14.2/.config make menuconfig (few ACPI-related changes r

Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Goldman
My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just hangs) After a reboot, everything is fine (until next crash). I tried to diagnose the problem: 1. ra

Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Goldman
(ignore if duplicated, sorry, I have trouble posting) My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just hangs) After a reboot, everything is fine (unti

thunderbird no longer understands '$'

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Goldman
I have a very up-to-date Sarge. After installing some additional fonts from Debian (Asian, Chinese, Japanese, etc. - I can't read them, but I wanted the ugly squares to go away in Firefox), I ran xfs restart and after a while, I noticed the following problem: I can't type '$' in Thunderbird. All