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Old 04-14-2009, 06:10 AM   #1
ganimo
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Debian 5.0 boot Problems


Hi Friends,

my Problem is about a Debian 5.0 installation;
My System:

Tri-boot System managed with grub:

sda1: WinXP i know its ugly but i need it for games
sda2: ubuntu 8.10
sda3: BT4 beta

I installed Debian on sda5 with a Swap on sda6
I did not installed grub by installing Debian because grub is already in my MBR.

So I wrote following lines in my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

title Debian
root (hd0,4) rw root=/dev/sda5
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686

When i select Debian in the grub menu, it starts but after a few seconds it displays the message:

"Wating for root file system..."

after this message the system stops...

I have no idea what could be wrong...

i would be grateful if someone of you could help me!
ganimo
 
Old 04-14-2009, 06:18 AM   #2
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Here's an example from my file:

Code:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.29.1-amd64custom
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.29.1-amd64custom root=/dev/sda3 ro iommu=noaperture
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.29.1-amd64custom
So i would say looking at yours you need to add a reference for root in the 'kernel'
line.Hope this helps...

Regards.
The trooper.
 
Old 04-14-2009, 07:19 AM   #3
ganimo
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Yea! Great it works!
Thank you!

I edited my menu-lst to:

title Debian
root (hd0,4) root=/dev/sda5
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda5
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686

and now im writing this with my new Debian-System!
 
Old 04-14-2009, 07:36 AM   #4
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Cool!.Welcome to Debian.
 
Old 04-19-2009, 02:32 AM   #5
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Here's my kernel entry from the menu.lst:
Code:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro splash=silent  splash=silent
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
Mine was automatically generated by my machine, but it also included "vga=791" after the first splash=silent entry. This caused my monitor to blank out with a complaint about "analog entry" or something during the boot up (it recovered when x was started). So I took out the vga=791 entry, and it works fine. The second line, the root entry, simply has this: "root (hd0,0)", and not the other stuff that you've put in your second line root entry.

[later edit...] Ah, just noticed that you've already solved the issue. I must resolve to read through entire threads, rather than merely reading the first posting, before responding. Anyway, congratulations.

Last edited by mark_alfred; 04-19-2009 at 02:37 AM.
 
  


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