Hello, Thank you for your suggestion. I tried ide0=noprobe etc... and it made no difference. The kernel still booted, and still hung when remounting the root fs as read/write. Any other ideas?? Thanks again, Hobbs. Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:54:38PM +0200, R. de Kuijer wrote: >> Hello Richard, >> >> It is strange but SATA uses sd* instead of hd*. >> SATA always make sure it begins with sda , not depending which >> controllerport it uses. >> The dvd-drive should always get the hda. > > To the OP ... perhaps the IDE driver is picking up your SATA drives first > and thus the SATA driver doesn't get a chance. > > You could use ide0=noprobe and ide1=noprobe as boot options to keep the IDE > drvier from jumping in when it shouldn't... > > I've used this with RHEL4 on some HP SATA servers that would use the IDE > driver instead of the SATA driver for drive access. > > Ray > -- 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
