On 18 Jun 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Seems very odd. It's the same error I got when trying to boot from a
> DAC960 controller. The problem, in my case, was that the kernel doesn't
> recognize the DAC960's device names when it's parsing its parameters.
> In order to correct the problem, I had to pass the kernel the hex values
> of the major and minor numbers of the root fs device, rather than the
> device name. I don't know why that would be a problem for you, since I
> boot at home from a SCSI device...
>
> All the same, you can try it. Change your grub.conf (or on the grub
> command line at boot time) so that the kernel parameter line looks like
> this:
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-4 ro root=0802
>
> You should only need to change the root=xxxx argument. 0802 is the hex
> value of /dev/sda2.
Good suggestion. I recall having to do something like this long ago
with a SCSI system I had at home with Windows on the second drive.
Didn't work this time though.
Other ideas welcome. Thanks.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
