RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425

[Richard Hobbs]

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion, but the only device that uses an IDE
cable in our system is the DVD-ROM drive. The hard drives use SATA.

Also, the IDE cable being used by the DVD-ROM drive is only a 40-wire
flat cable, not 80 wires.

Nevertheless, i tried unplugging the DVD-ROM drive, and we still get the
same error.

Also, if this was the problem, why did it work during the installation?

Thanks anyway! :-)

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Richard.


Adriano Frare wrote:
> The problem is IDE flat cable, using flat cable of 80 wires.
> 
> Richard Hobbs wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have successfully installed RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425
>> today. This server has two SATA hard drives, and an IDE DVD-ROM drive.
>>
>> Using the following kernel parameters, i successfully installed across
>> both hard drives from CD:
>>
>>   ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 vga=791 resolution=1024x768 expert
>>
>> However, since installation, the system no longer boots. I've tried
>> appending the above parameters to the kernel line in grub, but is still
>> doesn't boot.
>>
>> It starts to boot, and everything looks fine, until it tries to remount
>> the root fs in read/write mode, at which point it appears to hang.
>>
>> There are several messages on screen, all of which are normal, except
>> two instances of the following:
>>
>>   hdc: status error: status = 0x58
>>
>> NOTE: For some reason, the two hard drives were picked up as hdc and
>> hde, but it seemed to install OK.
>>
>> If i boot up into rescue mode on the installation CD, i can mount the
>> drives fine, and chroot into my newly built system, but it just won't
>> boot up by itself.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions??
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Richard.
>>
> 

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