problems using grub

[Robert L Cochran]

Hmmm. Can you describe the hardware you have? I'm especially interested 
in how many drives you have, and of what type (IDE or SCSI). I do not 
think you have software RAID at all because your df output doesn't show 
RAID devices and you said you turned RAID off via your BIOS. That sounds 
a lot like you have a Promise or other brand of RAID controller on your 
motherboard, and the Promise controllers don't work well with Linux.

Also, what are you using the 'ntplsmp' kernel for? I'm not familiar with 
that and wonder if you have an SMP motherboard?

I won't be able to respond more until tomorrow night at the earliest, 
but maybe others can pitch in and help you too.

Bob


Globe Trotter wrote:

> --- Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
>>If you are doing RAID1, then in your grub.conf file entry:
>>
>>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2097.nptl ro root=/dev/md1
>>initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2097.nptl.img
>>
> 
> 
> By the way, I tried this out and nothing happened!! Still the blinking lights
> after grub.....but then I did it by hand and ended up getting a
> kernel-panic....
> 
> df -h gives the following:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde5             2.9G  2.3G  547M  81% /
> /dev/hde1             2.0G   33M  1.9G   2% /new
> none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hde6              40G  1.8G   36G   5% /usr/local
> 
> 
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
>         root (hd0,6)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/hdg1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp.img
> 
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
>         root (hd0,6)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl ro root=/dev/hdg1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.img
> 
> 
> For whatever it is worth, my software RAID1 is on /dev/hdg1.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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Bob Cochran
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