Updated Debian kernels

[Sean McMahon]

No ideas, though I did notice a bug report on this issue.  apt-listbugs tipped 
me off to this issue.  Has to do more with lilo and udev.  I'm using unstable 
here.
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From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
To: "Lutz Kaiser" <lutz.kaiser at gmx.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: Updated Debian kernels


> Howdy,
>
> I tried to install the new kernel, but I'm having issues. I suspect
> that they're not related to this kernel (because I had trouble with
> another kernel), but rather, with lilo somehow, or maybe some
> combination of hardware and lilo. Here's what's going on...maybe
> someone has an idea.
>
> My Linux machine died. I came back from vacation and it was very,
> very dead. So I managed to get ahold of another machine, in this case
> a Celeron/800, 512MB of RAM, 8MB of shared video memory, and a 40GB
> hard drive. I installed from the talking Debian disk Shane has on his
> Debian pages and everything went great! Until, that is, I tried to
> update to a new kernel by building a new kernel...also by installing
> the new one from Shane. The machine boots right up to mounting tthe
> root file system, then says:
> Kerlen panic, can't load root FS (or something like that, sorry, I
> reinstalled and don't want to break it again). Anyway, it's not
> finding the root file system, which is on /dev/hda2. The drive is
> partitioned with /dev/hda1 (swap, at the end of the hard drive); hda2
> (root, 12GB, at the beginning of the drive); hda3 (the rest of the
> drive, where I'm storing a bunch of junk).
>
> Trouble is, lilo claims that the BIOS and the kernel (?) are
> reporting different cylinder/head counts.
>
> Anyone got any ideas what's broke?
>
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