Install on A7V again...

[ullli]

First: I am the typical Mac-gone-Win for various reasons and never liked computers at all. Now for other various reasons I ended up here and I have to say: What a wonderful world! Really, I want to tell all my friends!!! (But they would not listen...)

Okay, here is my struggle.

Hardware: Asus A7V, IBM DTLA100 30GB on ATA100 Bus, Plextor ReWriter on IDE66 Bus (if I got it right I can't boot from a CD on the IDE100 Bus, or maybe I am just stupid...) Matrox DH450 - hang on, is this not stored in my profile? Sorry, I am dubbed "the german chaot" over here, just if you wondered...

Anyway, I read through the Hardware Titbits V Document on how to get Mandrake running on my system.

First install: Fully automated, had to boot with the "linux ide2=0xa000....." line everytime. Tried to edit the "menu.lst" as described in the above mentioned doc. After that it would not boot from nowhere...

Second install, this time with "Customized" and when in the bootloader installation I added the Grub-line to the standard linux-boot choice.
Well, after that I can't boot from nowhere, somelines read about: "ide2 already occupied, skipped"

and then getting the message:

request_module[block-major-331]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: cannot open root device 21:0a
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:0a

Okay, I am sure I am just a few miilimeters away but I can't see the fault in my setup, could someone please push my nose down on it???

Thank you!

Oh, and by the way - had I ever hesitated to like Linux, after reading the line "Kernel panic" I was taken away! A system that dares to admit to panic is worth all the hours I am going to spend, isn't it?

Thank you all for this!
ullli

[bdg1983]

I noticed that when I edited menu.lst and added the line ide2=a,b ide3=c,d it caused a problem booting. Insert the ide2=a,b ide3=c,d in the middle of the command instead of adding to the end. I found that when the line continued on the next line, it wouldn't work.

ie

xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxx ide2=a,b ide3=c,d xxx

works

xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx
ide2=a,b ide3=c,d

doesn't work.

Follow? In other words, don't let the line split into 2 lines. Ensure it's all on one.

Of course replace the a,b c,d with your specs.

There's a NHF here on Ultra66 and another at http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm that I used for my ATA100.

Need any Grub reference material. Do a search for grub here (http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera).

[ullli]

Whopee!

As far as I remember it was all on one line before, but now that I put it right behind the root-designation it works fine and dandy!!

Thank you very much, now I am going to read a lot this weekend ¦¬]


ullli