[Charlug] debian help

[Benjamin Tyner]

I finally had time to look at this again, and after changing hda1 to
sda1 in menu.lst, the system boots fine. The only trouble now is X:
upon issuing startx, I get the familiar X background and mouse cursor,
but nothing beyond that (no splash screen or gnome).

Frankly I'm surprised an apt-get update could cause so much grief... any ideas?

Thanks,
Ben

On 5/19/07, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 19:05, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to Charlotte and am looking forward to meeting fellow linux
> > enthusiasts. I'll also take this opportunity to describe my latest
> > woes :-) I've been a linux user for about 7 years but this one has me
> > stumped. Right now I'm using Debian but that may soon change :-) I did
> > an apt-get update and now I get a kernel panic on bootup -- it says
> > "please append a correct "root=" boot option ... I had been under the
> > impression that update doesn't touch the kernel ... anyway, if anyone
> > has any ideas I'd love to hear them.
>
> You should have your old kernel still listed in your grub or lilo
> configuration. Can you boot the old kernel?
>
> What partition and filesystem are you using for root? My /boot is ext3 and
> my / is reiserfs. If your root filesystem is not compiled into the kernel,
> you have to have it in the initrd, which is in /boot, which means that
> whatever filesystem you use on /boot has to be compiled into the kernel and
> the initrd has to be made right. Failure to make an initrd could cause the
> problem you have, but the previous initrd should still be around.
>
> Pierre
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