on Sat, Nov 09, 2002, Graham Williams (gjw@edm.act.cmis.csiro.au) wrote:
> I'm installing Debian 3.0 on a new machine with a 80GB IDE recognised
> as /dev/hda. I've upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.19-686 as we've added
> another IDE card to the machine (a CMD680). Now when it boots (using
> Grub) the boot starts okay and then finds the CMD680 (presumably
> before it finds the original IDE) and starts assigning its 3 hard
> disks to /dev/hda, /dev/hdc, and /dev/hdd! Then I presume it's trying
> to mount /dev/hda, presumably expecting this to be the original
> /dev/hda that I installed Debian on.
> It doesn't seem to get to recognising the original IDE drive any more.
> It simply kernel panics and stops. Can still boot into the older
> 2.4.18 kernel (which doesn't recognise the CMD680 IDE card)
>
> Any ideas on what I can do here to get out of this pickle?
Are you using devfs? You'll have to include an /etc/fstab line for it.
Did you include IDE support in your kernel?
It would help to post error output, probably from /var/log/dmesg or
/var/log/syslog.
Peace.
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