Alan,
That makes two of us. :) I have thought that "maybe* there was a conflict
between addresses of the video adapter and the HDD controllers. I brushed it
off with my Athlon, thinking that perhaps the kernel didn't properly support
the AMD Viper Ultra66 chipset. But when it happened again on my
fiancee's machine this weekend, and the same solution worked, I had to pose
the question.
-Chris
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Necro....AFAIK "vga=0x0301" in lilo.conf sets the video mode for
> the console to something other than the standard 24x80. I sure
> don't understand what effect it could have on mounting your root
> filesystem.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Necrotica wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently installed Mandrake 7.02 on both of my home machines. Oddly
> > enough, on both of them I had the exact same problem. The installation would
> > go fine, but when the machine rebooted I would get a kernel panic because it
> > was not able to mount the root filesystem. On both machines Mandrake was
> > installed on its own seperate hard drive (slave on the primary controller).
> >
> > The first machine is an AMD Athlon 700 (Viper chipset) and the second is an
> > IBM Aptiva Pentium II 266.
> >
> > Whats weird about this was the solution. :) If I add to the
> > append line of lilo.conf, rerun lilo, the filesystem mounts fine.
> >
> > Heh, don't think for a second that figured out this solution from the ground
> > up. :) I noticed it after installing numerous distros of Linux on one machine
> > and having the exact same problem. I then installed SuSE 6.3 and it actually
> > worked. I noticed that it appended vga=0x0301 to lilo.conf so I tried it out
> > on Mandrake - it worked.
> >
> > Sure enough, if I remove it right now, it won't be able to mount the root fs.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what this parameter does? Or why it was necessary to add
> > it to the only two machines in the world I have installed Linux on? Was this
> > a fluky thing that just happened to work? I'd be interested in hearing whats
> > up with this. Thanks...
> >
> > -Necro
