Dapper2 FT2, boot problems

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:59:31AM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:19:42AM EST, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Downloaded Dapper FT2 and put it on a CD yesterday. Installed it today,
>> non-expert mode, without any problems. Chose to use two partitions on my
>> SATA disk (only have one disk in the computer):
>> 
>>  /dev/sda7 -> /boot
>>  /dev/sda8 -> /
>> 
>> Booting works fine until the kernel is loaded. Then I get the message
>> that /dev/sda8 couldn't be found and I'm dropped into a BusyBox.
>
>I get similar behavior on my P4, with 3 hard drives, two connected to a
>PCI IDE card, and one to the on-board card.
>
>I think the problem for me at least, is that the installer loads the
>IDE modules a different order to what gets loaded in the initramfs. My
>on-board IDE uses piix, and my PCI card uses siimage. The piix module
>is loaded before siimage in the installer, so my data drive which is on
>the piix controller is hda. Then my OS drives which are on the siimage
>controller are detected next. However, when the kernel and initramfs
>loads, the siimage module is the only one loaded because that is where
>the OS is, but in doing so, the wrong device nodes are created, as
>there has been no other IDE module loaded before it.
>
>Perhaps your problem could be on a similar line, although none of my
>drives are sd devices.

Nope. That's not the problem I saw. i only have one disk. No removable
disks are attached at boot.

I recompiled the kernel and included SCSI support in the kernel rather
than in a module and I got it all to work... however this whole ordeal
has convinced me that it's not worth trying to get Dapper installed just
now.

/M

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