Dapper2 FT2, boot problems

[Derek Broughton]

Magnus Therning wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:19:42PM +0000, 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.
>>
>>Grub entry:
>>
>> title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-8-386
>> root            (hd0,6)
>> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.15-8-386 root=/dev/sda8 ro quiet
>> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.15-8-386
>> savedefault
>> boot
>>
>>Any idea on how to solve it?
> 
> The problem persists despite having installed a more suited kernel (k7
> since it's an AMD system). I'm really at a loss here, and I am not able
> to provide more info--I'm dropped in a BusyBox without a working
> keyboard :(
> 
> My CDROM turns up at /dev/hda, but I didn't see any messages regarding
> SCSI (AFAIK SATA is "handled through" the SCSI driver). I suspect there
> might be some kernel option to put in menu.lst that solves this, but I
> can't find anything through Google... I'm open for any suggestions...

See my post in this list "Kernel 2.6.15-5, udev and Inspiron 6000".  What I
initially got was:

> ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133
> ata1: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
> ata1: configured for UDMA/33
> scsi0: ata_piix
> hda: FUJITSU MHV2040A, ATA DISK drive

Obviously at this point it had failed to recognize it as scsi.  The later
udev changelogs mention fixes to let things settle down first, though the
first fix did nothing for me.  Perhaps this isn't the same as your problem,
but it sounds pretty close.
-- 
derek