[tlug] Etch bootup fail after installation

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

I've just bought a new Dell Dimension 5150c (160 GB SATA drive, 2.66 Duo 
Core Intel) on which I'm trying to install Etch. The installation runs 
fine, but on first boot, it hangs up at the following:

     Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... ...
     Done.
          Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
          or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
     ALERT! /dev/sda8 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!


(/dev/sda8 is the drive to which Debian was installed.)

I've googled this, and found others with the same problem, but no solutions.

I was able to successfully install Knoppix 5.0 on another sector (from 
which I'm not working), so I'm guessing there may be a way to fix this, 
but my skill levels are far away from the level of being able to 
diagnose it. Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.


Chuck


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