[Sussex] boot probs

[Stephen Williams]

David,

I have a suspicion that this might be a grub problem. I had something
similar after installing a 2.6.11 kernel.

I'll just check the Gentoo forums and be back in a jif.

Steve Williams.

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:46 +0100, David Chapman wrote:
> I have tried to upgrade my SuSE 9.2 box to a 2.6.11 kernel and it failed to 
> boot.
> The error is 
> 
> Loading kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko
> Loading kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko
> waiting for device /dev/hda6 to appear :............... not found -- exiting 
> to /bin/sh
> sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> $
> 
> 
> /dev/hda6 is my / partion
> 
> The same error appears with the 2.6.8-24-smp kernel
> 
> If I boot from my SuSE DVD and choose 
> >installation
> 	>boot installed system  
> 
> It will find the SuSE install and boot fine but only with the default 2.6.8-24 
> kernel which is uniprocessor.
> Upgrading to the 2.6.11 kernel required upgrading mkinitrd 1.1 to 1.2
> 
> Any help please
> I would rather not reinstall
> 
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