On 2007/12/17 01:33 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata apparently typed: > On 2007/12/16 14:28 (GMT) Alan Cox apparently typed: >> Felix Miata wrote: >>> It used to be that PATA was not SATA was not SCSI was not USB, and we could >>> distinguish which was which by their names. Now since libata, PATA = SATA = >> Trouble is USB is SCSI over a different cable, ATAPI is SCSI over an ATA >> cable, SATA is PATA over a different wire and often you can't tell one >> from the other (or people use PATA/SATA bridges)... > I can tell by looking at them. ;-) >> If your rootfs is labelled rather than /dev/hd* it should all just work, >> and it should certainly load the ata_piix module into the initrd. > I built a new initrd and redirected stdout & stderr to a file. ata_piix is in > it. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/mkinitrd.scr > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/mkinitrd-fc8.txt >> Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx of the system. > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/lspcivvxxx-gx150.txt > Probably moot though. I noticed boot errors about the disk being smaller than > it is and failure to read sectors. PowerMax says the 7 year old HD is > failing. I'll report again after trying another HD. I replaced the HD and installed again (try ~#8). Boot still halts after: ... sd 1:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM ...... Waiting for driver initialization. noresume passed, not resuming... Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. initrd is at: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img /root/install.log: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/install-gx150-fc8-0712172000.txt /var/log/anaconda*: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-gx150-f8-0712172000-log.txt http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-gx150-f8-0712172000-syslog.txt http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-gx150-f8-0712172000-xlog.txt Other than trying rawhide, I'm really out of ideas now. :-( -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
