Problem on the Startup

[Flavio_Acer]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem in the startup of my debian system. I've installed, yesterday, the new "testing" debian and i've made the upgrade with the APT. Everything works perfectly.

But something went wrong, because when i did the restarting, the startup frozen in the follow line:
Begin: Waiting for root file system.

And then nothing happens.The system don´t respond neither control^c.

Can anyone help me? I´ve made the installation 2 times but the problem appears when I make the apt upgrade.
How can i make the debug of the startup?


My computer is a laptop acer 1691WLMI.


Best regards Flavio.

[Red]

Can you show us your source.list, kernel and /boot/grub/menu.lst ? For kernel use

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uname -a

[Flavio_21]

Can you show us your source.list, kernel and /boot/grub/menu.lst ? For kernel use

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uname -a

Off course,

Shrek:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb http://debian.ua.pt/pub/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.ua.pt/pub/debian etch main contrib non-free

Shrek:/# uname -r
2.6.15-1-486

Shrek:/# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-486
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486 root=/dev/hda4 ro noapic=yes
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-486 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486 root=/dev/hda4 ro noapic=yes single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486

title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


Probably is some error of the lastest updates.
Now i running debian, installed again , but i don´t make update

Canyou help me make a debugging?

Thanks in advance.

[ajdlinux]

Do you have udev and all that working?

BTW the best way to install testing is to install it from scratch - I upgraded my sarge system to etch then sid, and while it works OK it's really clogged up.

andrew

[Guest]

Do you have udev and all that working?

BTW the best way to install testing is to install it from scratch - I upgraded my sarge system to etch then sid, and while it works OK it's really clogged up.

andrew

Yes, all is working perfectly.
I just finished the total configuration of my laptop in a debian system !
The last step was the "smart" battery I did it in debian way. It was very simple, but it needed a new patched kernel.

It is petty that the debian kernel don´t came with some common patchs.

If anyone want help for the configuration of a equal or similary system, say it:
Acer Aspire 1691 WLMI

The updated i will not test for now..because i don´t know how to debug it.
Probable i need to create a bootdisk.

I adore linux/Debian

Best Regards