Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason wrote:
> >
> > I have successfully installed Storm Linux from CD onto an intel box.
> > It's got a built in cyrix scsi card, and a 4.5gig uw scsi drive. Redhat
> > finds the drive and installs fine onto it. Storm does too, but it won't
> > boot. It complains about finding the root partition. When I put the
> > root partition on /dev/sda1, it says can't mount root partition at
> > 08:01, when I put root on /dev/sda2, it says can't mount root partition
> > at 08:02. I know that it finds the drive, and the card because it lets
> > me partition it and install. It just won't mount the partition.
> >
> > Any ideas on a solution to this problem? Is there something that I'm
> > doing wrong?
> >
> > - juka
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> I would guess that your card is detected with a module in which case
> the mounting of root partition won't happen obviously since the system
> needs access to the module in the first place.The install is irelevant
> since you boot the install on a RAM disk from a compressed filesystem
> on a floppy(or emulated floppy from a CDROM).
> I'm afraid you have to compile on another machine a kernel with support
> for your specific SCSI card IN and not as a module.
>
> other ideas welcome.
>
or if you have a boot floppy, recompile on the same machine - configuring
built-in support for the appropriate, rather than as a module.
Regards,
Richard
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