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Re: Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable



On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:29:38PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote:
> 2007/8/3, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote:
> > > i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which
> > > manages 2 disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly
> > > that raid and the installation process terminates fine. But when i
> > > reboot, after linux loads i20 modules and founds hdd... it stops
> > > saying "waiting for root filesystem".  any suggestions??? thanks
> > > (and sorry for my english :D).
> >
> > What is your kernel command line, from /boot/grub/menu.lst?
> >
> > Doug.
> >
>> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz.... root=/dev/sda1 ro initird ....  savedefault
> 
> that's grub menu.lst. The strange thing is that with the old stable
> Debian (sarge) everthing work s fine. Is there any way to boot Debian
> etch witch a 2.4 series kernel? thanks

root=/dev/sda1 gives a single partition, which is fine if the hardware
raid card is really recognized as hardware raid since it will present
what looks like one dist to the kernel.  You need to find out if the
module for the card is being loaded by the initrd; I don't know how to
do that.

Doug.



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