Debian will not boot after unknown event
I will start with this question in the newbie section.
I have, what I thought, was a stable install of Debian. Up until tonight all was well.
Here are specs first:
Dual P3 550 running the stable 2.6.8-SMP 686 kernel on Sarge.
A few weeks ago I installed VMware sucessfully. I had an XP vm running as well as a DOS 6.22 vm. The catalyst for this event, I think, is my desire to have sound in the DOS vm.
To this point the machine has not had a sound card. With an uptime around 80 days, I turned off the PC and installed a Creative CT4810 (Esonique). Turning the PC back on everything went seemingly according to plan.
Upon booting to the bash prompt (this machine does not run X) I typed lspci | grep audio to ensure Debian saw the card. It returned details about a CT4810 and something akin to a memory address. I thought all was well.
I fired up vmware server console on my Windows machine to begin my DOS vm adventures, but I could not connect. I then loaded the web interface (vmware-mui) from Windows and all looked ok. I started the DOS vm and quite strangely the whole Debian PC restarted.
Now, each time Debian boots 1 of 2 things happens:
1) The boot process hangs permanently "Checking quotas..." (which is immediately preceded by "Mounting local file systems..."
2) The boot process hangs briefly at the same place... but then spits out a variety of things
Stack:
Call Trace:
Code:
... all with too much for me to type here right now.
<0> Kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler - not syncing
I have removed the sound card and the booting remains the same... I only have the 1 kernel to boot with as I removed the default 2.4.x kernel that is installed initially by the Debian installer.
I would like to know if there is a way for for me to salvage this install, without having to install on a new drive, mount this one and then bring everything over.
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