Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 (edited) I thought I'd post this, for my future reference and for the aid of possibly others. My a7v600 has a Via SATA Raid controller onboard, but I'm not using it. Upgrading from 9.2 to 10, I was unable to boot a 2.6.* kernel. I just recently did a complete reinstall of 10 CE on the machine and it works fine with the 2.6.3-4mdk kernel. Here's my /etc/fstab which kinda shows why I had problems: /etc/fstab /dev/hde1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde5 /backup reiserfs notail 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdh /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /etc/lilo.conf # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map default="263i686up4G-7" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 label="263-4" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 devfs=nomount" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-0.rc2.1mdk label="267-0rc21" root=/dev/hde1 read-only optional vga=788 append=" devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.7-0.rc2.1mdk.img image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB label=263i686up4G-7 root=/dev/hde1 read-only optional vga=788 append=" devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB.img Notice it sees my HD as /dev/hde (I guess because it is seeing the SATA controller first). Well, now 2.4.* kernels don't boot, so I guess in order to boot them, I have to edit /etc/fstab to show the HD back at /dev/hda and also edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect that. Edited June 6, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 (edited) Well, a new development...the 2.6.7*mdk kernel now knows the SATA drive is empty, so *it* wouldn't boot. I had to change /etc/fstab back to the /dev/hda* for the HD, /dev/hdc for cdrom, /dev/hdd for dvd and then reboot, hitting ESC at the lilo prompt and then typing in linux root=/dev/hda1, then after booting, change /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. Edited June 23, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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