10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
5:42 p.m.
What does the rest of your conf file look like? It
will tell us what
partition/drive you *should* be using as root - does it match this entry?
root is on hdc1
home is on hdc2
winxp/C is on hda1
win98/D is on hdb1
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:34:02 +0000, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net
<james(a)dis-dot-dat.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 04:11PM -0500, guerrier spake thus:
> > Hi,
> > I installed the 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 kernel via synaptic. and then
> > i gave the update-grub coomand. menu.lst was automatically updated;
> > this is the new entry:
> >
> > title aGNUla/DeMuDi, kernel 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7
> > root (hd2,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 root=/dev/hdc1 ro
> > savedefault
> > boot
>
What does the rest of your conf file look like? It
will tell us what
partition/drive you *should* be using as root - does it match this entry?
>
> > now when i boot, grub launches, i choose 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7. it
> > starts to load and then i get this error:
> >
> > VFS: cannot open root device 'hdc1" or unknown-block (0-0)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel Panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0-0)
> >
> > I can still boot the 2.4.25 kernel and windowsxp. I also did this, on
> > the advice of Free:
> >
> > # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7
> > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 (--install)
> > cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> > error were encountered while processing:
> > kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7
> >
> > Gustin inquired about initrd.img-2.6.10-1-multimedia. And I found
> > that there in no entry in menu.lst about it nor is there such a file
> > in /boot directory.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > guerrier
> >
>
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