Re: Problems on Blade 1000 after etch instalation
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Luis Martinez wrote:
After more testing it seems that the machine does not wait for ever, at
the end it fails to found and mount the root partition.
If it did work during install, but fails to boot from the hard drive,
there is likely a problem with initrd. During boot the modules, required
for the root partition to operate, are loaded. Since the loading is
asynchronous, the process than waits for the devices to show up. If the
needed driver was not loaded, or the wrong driver was used, it should just
drop you to a shell after a while. From there you can try to check what
modules are loaded (cat /proc/modules if lsmod is not available) and
manually load the needed module(s) (try insmod qlogicfc, if you are sure
that this is the right one). You can also compare the lists of modules
during the install (make sure the disks are detected, then press 'Back' a
few times to get to the main menu, select 'Start a shell' and run lsmod to
get it) with the one you have in the emergency initrd shell. You might
also check that all the needed modules are actually available on the
initrd. This information should help us to figure out what went wrong.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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