Re: Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 and kernel panic
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:51, Stephen Hargrove wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:03, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Just to clarify: the original 40GB drive was (and still is) hda, and
> > that's what you're still trying to boot off of?
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > Something tells me, that the adapter is confusing the BIOS about
> > where to boot from. Have you looked in the PCs BIOS (or the Promise
> > BIOS, if possible) to see if the Promise is hijacking something?
>
> I can't get into the Promise BIOS. Everything on the PCs BIOS looks
> good. I had another fellow geek walk through it with me just to make
> sure I wasn't overlooking the obvious.
>
> > Solving problems the hard way:
> >
> > 1. Back out your changes, and see if you can boot.
>
> Yes.
>
> > 2. Then, if that works, add a 120GB HDD as hdc and reboot.
>
> Yes.
>
> > 3. Then, if that works, add the Promise adapter (no HDD!!) and boot.
>
> This is where the problem happens. I'm thinking I need to add a root=
> something parameter to lilo, but I'm not clear on exactly what that
> would be.
>
> When all of the HDDs are connected, /dev/hda (my primary) gets renamed
> to /dev/hdi.
Ah ha!!!!
I bet that channel 0 on the Promise card becomes /dev/hda.
You're using lilo? If so, try something like
linux root=/dev/hdiX
where X is the partition where / is.
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