Hello, Thank you for your suggestion, but the only device that uses an IDE cable in our system is the DVD-ROM drive. The hard drives use SATA. Also, the IDE cable being used by the DVD-ROM drive is only a 40-wire flat cable, not 80 wires. Nevertheless, i tried unplugging the DVD-ROM drive, and we still get the same error. Also, if this was the problem, why did it work during the installation? Thanks anyway! :-) Any other ideas? Thanks in advance, Richard. Adriano Frare wrote: > The problem is IDE flat cable, using flat cable of 80 wires. > > Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have successfully installed RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 >> today. This server has two SATA hard drives, and an IDE DVD-ROM drive. >> >> Using the following kernel parameters, i successfully installed across >> both hard drives from CD: >> >> ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 vga=791 resolution=1024x768 expert >> >> However, since installation, the system no longer boots. I've tried >> appending the above parameters to the kernel line in grub, but is still >> doesn't boot. >> >> It starts to boot, and everything looks fine, until it tries to remount >> the root fs in read/write mode, at which point it appears to hang. >> >> There are several messages on screen, all of which are normal, except >> two instances of the following: >> >> hdc: status error: status = 0x58 >> >> NOTE: For some reason, the two hard drives were picked up as hdc and >> hde, but it seemed to install OK. >> >> If i boot up into rescue mode on the installation CD, i can mount the >> drives fine, and chroot into my newly built system, but it just won't >> boot up by itself. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions?? >> >> Thank you in advance! >> >> Richard. >> > -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Normal Email: richard.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mobile Email: mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377 _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
