Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com> writes:
> I have a box (all SCSI except ide-cdrom) that I am trying to install.
> Everything goes ok, except lilo thinks the root partition is hda rather
> than sda. Consequently, I cannot boot the system, which makes me very
> cranky =) During boot, I see odd messages about hda - hdc, which don't
> even exist. It says hda - no response, resetting.
>
> This behaviour persists even if I specify "root=/dev/sda1 hda=none,
> hdb=none, hdc=none" at boot time.
>
> The only way I can use the box is by building a no-ide kernel, but then
> I lose out on the cdrom . . . . .. Certainly I'm not the first guy to
> build an all SCSI-but-ide-cdrom box???
Have you built without IDE disk support, and only IDE CDROM support?
If not, try that. The driver will still scan the entire (perceived)
IDE chain, though, so it may not help.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:00:24 EST