On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:57:29PM +0200, Oleg O. Ossovitskii wrote: > Hello, Alex! > > Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 5:56:26 PM, you wrote: > > AZ> 2) check that the block device driver is loaded successfully > AZ> and partition table is read properly > AZ> (look at kernel boot messages) > > You're rigth! This is reason why I can't boot kernel 2.6.10 > > I have next HDD & DVD: > hda - IDE NEC DVD-RW ND-2500A > hdb - IDE Western Digitall (old 850 GB drive) > hdc - SATA (in legacy mode) Maxtor 80 GB (here Linux is placed) > > I can boot from hdc Windows 2000, qnx4, linux-2.4.27, but when I try to boot > to > linux-2.6.10 I got something like > > ide: 0x170-0x1F0 is busy > > and so on... I can't give full error message, until I receive it via > serial console > > Sorry, it's not a ReiderFS bug, but I don't understand how grub-0.92 > can take kernel from /dev/hdc2 and why kernel can't read /dev/hdc8??? > > May be it's a wrong kernel config, or wrong kernel option?
I would turn SATA (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA) support off. > > --- grub's menu.lst --- > .... > # For booting GNU/Linux > title GNU/Linux-2.6.x > kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc8 rw devfs=mount > > title GNU/Linux-2.4.x > kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4 root=/dev/hdc8 rw devfs=mount > .... > ----------------------- > > My harware list: > CPU: Pentium4 2.80 GHz > RAM: 512MB > MB: ASUS P4P800 > > > Best regards, Oleg O. Ossovitskii > chief programmer, KGPA Ltd., West Russia > tel: +7(0112)46-23-40, fax: +7(0112)43-64-96, cell: +79022193956 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], icq# 33366588 -- Alex.