Boot problems after adding and removing soundcard
Hi, I'm resending this message with new column widths -
I forgot Outlook was so crap...sorry :)
A couple of days ago i installed a new Soundblaster 128 pci into
my Debian 2.2r3 system. When I rebooted the system I received the
message:
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
when booting and, obviously, the system hung. After removing the
card the system again booted normally. Having looked around the
Net for help, I determined that perhaps some sound modules were
not installed and so I went to update the kernel using my source
CD's. However, now my CD drive refused to mount and I was given
some message about /dev/cdrom not being a recognised block device.
So I couldn't use the CD drive when in Debian. Checking that the
CD drive wasn't faulty and after some extra poking about and a
little help, it was determined that the Soundcard was probably
damaged and this has since been returned.
However, and this is my actual problem, I panicked and re-
installed everything (after backing up) in the hope this would
somehow miraculously fix all my woes. Everything installs ok to
the "make boot floppy or reboot" screen upon which time I reboot.
Again the kernel panic message above pops up and the system hangs.
I know there is a problem with the Promise controller on my ASUS
A7V motherboard, which I fix at the first "boot:" screen when
installing with the line:
linux ide0=0xa400, 0xa002 ide1=0x9800, 0x9402
where I have found out the address of the ide using
"cat /proc/pci ¦ more".
My hardware is as follows:
750Mhz AMD Duron
256Mb pc133
Maxtor 20gb HD
Phillips CDRW
ASUS A7V with Promise ATA100
Please note that I have been using the system prior to this for
about 4 months and its never given me a problem.
If anyone can help with this then that would be great.
Many thanks
Dan Oppenheim
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