Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

From: Justin Guerin (jguerin_at_cso.atmel.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:16:44 -0600
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:00, Ian L wrote:
    > At 07:58 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote:
    > >On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:01, Ian L wrote:
    > > > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
    > > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700
    > > > >
    > > > >Ian L <debhelp@merk.caltech.edu> wrote:
    > >
    > >[snip]
    > >
    > > > I'm just having no luck at all with this. After it finished
    > > > installing, the boot process fails. The last few lines on the screen
    > > > are:
    > > >
    > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
    > > > pivot_root: no such file
    > > > /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: no such file
    > > > kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
    > > >
    > > > i rebooted and was offered the choice to boot into recovery mode, but
    > > > that fails also with the same errors.
    > > >
    > > > Any suggestions?
    > > >
    > > > thanks,
    > > >
    > > > Ian
    > >
    > >Apparently, your partition table is corrupt. What does it look like?
    > > What is each partition supposed to contain?
    > >
    > >Justin Guerin
    >
    > I only had 2 partitions.
    > hda1 / 18 gigs ext3
    > hda2 swap 2 gig
    >
    > Does it matter if i use grub or lilo? or install them into the mbr or
    > hda1?
    >
    > thanks
    >
    > Ian

    Grub vs. Lilo is personal preference most of the time. Install them into
    the MBR if you want to use it to boot all OSes present on your system.
    Install to hda1 if you want to use a different boot loader. If you got
    this far, that's not your problem. You've already found the kernel (or the
    initial ram disk), the problem is mounting your root partition. Can you
    say what the partitions are marked as? I believe ext3 should be 0x83, and
    swap should be 0x82. I take it those are the only two partitions on the
    drive?

    Another thing to check is that you've got your device nodes created
    properly. If you're running devfs and it fails to start, you'll get this
    kind of error. Are you using devfs, udev, or plain /dev?

    Oh, you may also need to post the fstab contents (at least for your primary
    drive). That could also be the source of the error.

    Justin Guerin 

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