2009/5/13 Eric Cathelinaud <e.cathelinaud@googlemail.com>

Hi Holger,

I have got an IDE hard desk, not SATA.
I think it's coming from the initrd missing. I don't understand why there is an error when launching the command:

mkinitramfs-kpkg -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.4 2.6.27.4
The error is :

cp: operand of the target file missing after `/tmp/tmp.XXXXmDVe5B/sbin/'

I tried to do 'update-initramfs -u -k all' but still have the same problem:
cp: operand of the target file missing after `/tmp/tmp.XXXX<something>/sbin/'

The software is using cp for some reason but something is missing and I don't know what.
I installed mkinitramfs and libbash (needed by mkinitramfs). Did I miss something?

Best regards,
Eric

2009/5/12 Holger Adams <holger@kernreaktor.org>

Hi Eric,

Eric Cathelinaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed Debian_Getting_Started chapter in the wiki. There wasn't any
> error but, after rebooting, the kernel crashed:
>
> Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.27.4'
>
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet hfcmulti.dslot=1
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1796901]
>
>
> [0.000000] Unknown boot option 'hfcmulti.dslot=1': ignoring
> [0.796125] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)

Have you forgotten to add SATA support to the kernel and renaming the
hardisk to sda (fstab)?

Best Regards,
Holger