[TAG] 2.6.2 kernel woes: Will not find root fs

[dann]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:38:07 +0000 (GMT)
Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Believe it or not I had this and it was related to a ramdisk issue. Try
> adding:
> 
> ```
> append="ramdisk_size=5120"
> '''
> to /etc/lilo.conf 
> 
> and then:
> 
> /sbin/lilo -v
> 
> Reboot and pray. 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- Thomas Adam
> 
> =====
> "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net
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> 
> "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish 
> you for all of them at once when you get better. The 
> experience will probably kill you. :)"
> 
>  -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor)


I fell pray to the post to TAG curse again, which usually has me finding
the answer within a few hours of emailing TAG.  

I had replaced a failing drive about 6 months back with a used drive I
picked up along the way.  This drive had EZ-Bios installed in the boot
sector.  Initially I was concerned with this but when I had no problems
with running linux after I transferred over my partitions, I put it out of
mind a bit too far.

I compiled a 2.6.2 kernel enabling everything possible under the IDE
device drivers into the kernel.  This slowed down the boot process enough
for me to see this line:

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 p1[EZD]

Sure enough, I knew EZBios was going to come back and bite me one day.  I
guess EZBios was somehow preventing the kernel from seeing the drive
properly.

After removing EZBios the 2.6.2 kernel booted without a complaint.

Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate your time and effort.


-- 
Dann S. Washko
Lehigh Valley Linux Users Group
http://www.thelinuxlink.net
get slack (www.slackware.com) and get happy

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