[Tfug] Debian not booting

[JD Rogers]

That sounds like what can happen when you move the kernel image or
compile a new kernel and overwrite the old without running lilo. The
other possibility is the driver for the hard drive (scsi or whatever)
isn't built in to the kernel, but that typically gets farther and
starts to load the kernel and fails with a kernel panic (and one of my
favorite linux error messages: "I have no root and I want to scream")
when it can't read the disk.

You will probably need to boot to a rescue disk or knoppix or
something and re-install lilo (or grub which will eliminate the need
to run it every time the kernel image changes). Of course, I suppose
there are other possibilities for this error, but that's the behavior
I got when I borked my system a few times. :-)

Good luck,
JDR

On 6/13/05, Jim B <elemint at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Debian machine and what it is doing is once the machine loads all
> scsi bios's the machine then just has "LI" for Lilo printed on the screen
> like it starts to load Lilo but that is it, the system gets no further.
> 
> When I reboot the system I see the the container on the scsi raid card is
> good and is OK.
> 
> Jim
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