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[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Well, I switched to GRUB, and that seems to have done the trick.  Many
thanks!

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:47:57PM -0600, quoth Ed Hill:
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 15:30, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> > I am trying to get my ATA 100 controller to work with the 2.4 kernel.
> > I have been running with the ATA 33 controller with no problems, and my
> > two hard drives are identified as "hda" and "hdb".  But when I try to
> > boot with the ATA 100 controller, they seem to be identified as "hde"
> > and "hdf".  With LILO pointing to hda, the root partition cannot be
> > mounted and the kernel panics.
> 
> 
> Hi Dhruva,
> 
> With Lilo, you could add another boot entry that has everything the same
> except it points to /dev/hde such as:
> 
> image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.18
>         label=hde-example
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hde7
>         append="hdc=ide-scsi hda=none hdb=none hdd=none"
> 
> 
> But Lilo is a pain.  Any chance you could you switch to grub?
> 
> I have a system thats booting off of /dev/hde3 with grub (using the
> additional on-board Promise ATA-100 controller, not the main ATA-66
> controller for /dev/hd[a-d]) and it works quite nicely.  As a bonus,
> grub also allows you to edit the boot options *AT BOOT TIME* which is a
> huge help if you suddenly find that you made a mistake in the
> configuration.
> 
> Heres a grub.conf example:
> 
> default=1
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Custom Kernel
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /bzImage-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/hde3 hdc=ide-scsi vga=1
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.18.img
> 
>