Install won't boot from SATA drive [solved]

[Guest amimjf]

I installed MDV2008 from x86 Free DVD, but when it rebooted it would not boot. MDV2007.1 was fine on the same hardware.

 

I have one IDE harddisk and one SATA.

 

I am using the lilo bootloader, grub gives the following error when drakboot is run from the rescue cd, chroot'ed into the installed system.

 

"bootloader not found, creating new configuration"

 

Lilo.conf

default="linux"

boot=/dev/sda

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux"

root=/dev/sda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

 

last few lines of kernel error message,..

 

mounting root filesystem /dev/root with flags noatime

mount:error 19 mounting ext3 flags noatime

switching to new root

error opening /dev/console!!!:2

umounting old /proc

umounting old /sys

switchroot mount failed:22

initrd failed

kernel panic - not syning

 

Looking at some similar problems, my SATA drive is not SATAII, and SATA is always on in the BIOS.

 

The MDV 2008 RescueCD can mount my SATA partions, but the installed kernel cannot.

 

I presume this is related to a sata_nv issue not being built into the initrd, annoying that 2007.1 worked but 2008 does not.

[Guest amimjf]

i managed to resolve this myself by booting with the rescueCD mounting my partitions and then rebuilding the initrd image.

 

'mkinitrd -f --with=sata_nv --with=sd_mod /boot/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img

2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv'

 

then reinstalling the bootloader.

[spinynorman]

Thanks for reporting back. I'll mark it solved. :)