Hi: I am running unstable Debian with Linux 2.6.6. kernel. My computer is a Gateway computer with a large (160GB) disk with SATA controller. I have Windows XP on hda1, and linux on hda2, with partitions hda3,5,6 etc for home, usr, var, etc.
I had problems installing Linux on the hard drive because of the SATA drive. Knoppix seemed to boot up, and with the help of that I managed to install 2.6.0-test9 kernel. The Hard drive seemed to be changed to sdb, with Linux on the sdb2 partition. The 750 MB Iomega zip was recognized as sda. The dvd rom was recognized as sr0. I changed the /etc/fstab to these values and managed to make a bootdisk with syslinux; I do not remember precisely what I did, but I presume I used Knoppid. It boots up only when I do not give any parameters at the boot prompt. If I attempt to give root=/dev/sdb2, it goes into kernel panic. This is able to boot up, but I am unable to dual-boot from Windows: it just hangs. I recently thought I would install the 2.6.6. kernel. They recommend that the cd use hte ide-cd rather than the scsi and I built the kernel accordingly. I used syslinux to make a boot disk, but this goes into kernel panic, wanting a valid root=" " paramter. No parameter seems to work. I have tried, lilo and grub and all of them do the same thing. I presume this has something to do with the fact that to the bios the disk is hda, and when the scsi SATA is used in 2.6.6 this is changed. Any suggestions as to how to proceed will be appreciated. Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
