Re: Install succeeds but unable to mount root partition (solved)

Hi Sorry, my mistake. I overlooked the RAID option for my SATA disk in BIOS. When changing this to IDE, everything was fixed. Regards Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install succeeds but unable to mount root partition

Hi I have a problem with the newest Debian testing installer on i386. The installation works perfectly but when I reboot after the installation the computer is unable to mount the root partition. Resulting in (initramfs) prompt which I don't know how to use. I have installed tens of Debian

Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console I did not find any helpful recommendations on t

Kernel 2.4 on Etch

Hi Is there any simple way of making kernel 2.4 and 2.6 coexist in Debian Etch? I know a lot of complicated ways :) but I need version 2.4 to test old kernel modules. Thanks Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Swap

Hi >Thanks for the information, it has been interesting but is it not possible > to start on the current kernel and do swapoff and then change the swap > partition and then swapon again? Or comment it out in fstab and then reboot? > Anyway, I have resized a swap partition some years ago that

Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

Hi I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic links. Similar description to the following message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01965.html In the directory /usr/src/linux-headers-2