Another case of Bug #525!
--- Lonnie Cumberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a PIII 500Mhz 128Meg ram system with a VooDoo3 card and
> Ultra66 controller with a 26Gig drive.
>
> I was able to:
>
> 1. Boot the install CDROM.
> 2. Press F1 and enter at prompt "linux ide0=noautotune
> ide1=noautotune ide2noautotune ide3=noautotune"
> 3. then do a complete install of the 8.0 Beta 1 CD's
>
> When the system had finished and rebooted, it froze up in
> various ways that I tried.
>
> 1. I tried to enter the same "linux ide0=noautotune
> ide1=noautotune ide2noautotune ide3=noautotune"
> and the system seemed to boot the kernel then go into a panic
> because it could not locate the root fs.
>
> 2. I tried an old string from Mandrake 7.1 APPEND
> command "hdd=ide-scsi ide2=0x1068,0x101c ide3=0x1060,1018"
> and the system found the drive properly on hde, but froze up
> when it came to "Partition Check: hde: "
>
> I also tried to specifically send it "root=/dev/hde7" but it
> came back and said that it could not find the root FS.
>
> Could someone please tell me a fix for this as it seems to
> almost be ready to boot.
>
> Just one more thing, the old Mandrake 7.1 with the 2.2.15 kernel
> installed with no problems and I did not have to make any chages
> at all.
>
> Cheers,
> Lonnie Cumberland
>
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