... subsystem initialized libata version 2.21 loaded. hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/7376KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com kjournald starting. ...

... Normal zone: 0 pages reserved Normal zone: 31827 pages, LIFO batch:7 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 31827 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 8192 bytes) clocksource: mult[b40001] shift[16] clockevent: mult[16c16bf] shift[32] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled ...

..., though. 1. I want to keep Gentoo on here. I already have an extra partition (that I had _something_ on, but I can wipe it). It looks like: hda1: 100mb, gentoo's /boot, has grub info, ext2 hda2: 1gb, linux swap hda3: 123gb, gentoo's /, ext3 hda4: 30gb, can be deleted (put plan9 here ;) ) Firstly, from what I've seen in the docs, there'll be no problem using that and not touching ...

... × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 * 263 4570 34604010 5 Erweiterte /dev/hda3 4571 4962 3148740 0 Leer /dev/hda4 4963 5005 345397+ 0 Leer /dev/hda5 263 1024...

... pc and read more emails from 9fans. Although I checked when I was in linux - and /dev/hda2 _was_ set as active - now following tlaronde@polynum.com instructions, I rebooted into linux (remove cd from usb-cdrom and use %%fshalt 1). Inside linux (with fdisk), I removed active flag from /dev/hda2 and set it *again* in a wild hope, that this seemigly nonsense action can change something. ...

... boot it, we can amend silo.conf and carry on from there. A sarge bare basic install from CD ROM is also feasible if necessary. Mine says: -------------------------------------------------------------- root=/dev/hda2 partition=1 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 ### Note that for 2.6.18, the CD Rom needs ide=nodma or the boot process ### hangs at any one of several...

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:34:44AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: I guess you want something simple, like this: root=/dev/hda2 partition=2 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 append=" video=atyfb:off" image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd.img The first parameter, "root", specifies the device that should be mounted as root...

... it with update-initramfs. Thanks for this - Jim's point about video=atyfb:off is also very useful. I guess you want something simple, like this: root=/dev/hda2 partition=2 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 append=" video=atyfb:off" image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd.img The first parameter, "root", specifies the device that should be ...

...A Sun [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85%% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as valid Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be...

... occurring in the logs. [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85%% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as valid Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be ...