[64studio-devel] 64studio 1.4.0 not booting properly after installing from a cd

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi,

|--==> Tuukka Jääskeläinen writes:

  TJ> Oh yeah, forgot to mention. I did burn the master iso and installed it and
  TJ> it installed well, but still the same problem.

Thanks for having tested that, do get the very same message? like

---
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
Done.
         Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
         or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sdb1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

What did I do wrong?
---

Unfortunately the only way to debug this is through low level
commands. Please could you boot again and wait till the system drops
you in the shell?

Then please paste here the output of these commands:

cat /proc/cmdline
ls /dev/hd*
ls /dev/sd*
cat /proc/modules

If they are to long to copy by hand you can also take a picture of the
screen and send it to me off-list.

Ciao!

Free

  TJ> 2007/7/4, Tuukka Jääskeläinen <tuukka.j at gmail.com>:
  >>
  >>Oh I forgot to mention my hardware:
  >>
  >>Intel Core2Duo E6400
  >>Asus P5LD2
  >>1GB Kingston DDR2 667mhz
  >>
  >>So you suggest it has something to do with the motherboard? Is the next
  >>step buying a new one if I want it to work, or can I do something to fix
  >>this problem?
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >>2007/7/4, Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com>:
  >>>
  >>> Hi Free,
  >>>
  >>> > What happens is that if you load certain kernel PATA modules the name
  >>> > of the associated /dev/ files are changed from hdXX to sdXX, making
  >>> > initrd fail (the root device name is set in GRUB's menu.lst and should
  >>> > be not changed at boot time).
  >>> >
  >>> > What we did with kernel 2.6.19 was to exclude these modules from the
  >>> > config (which is the same debian does), but it could be that in kernel
  >>>
  >>> > 2.6.21 more of these PATA modules have been introduced
  >>>
  >>> That seems unlikely, I think it's probably a different bug with the same
  >>> symptom.
  >>>
  >>> I believe Tuukka's problem could be due to the fact he is using an ASUS
  >>> motherboard with two SATA discs:
  >>>
  >>> http://uwsg.ucs.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/1398.html
  >>>
  >>> It would be really helpful if Tuukka could test the master iso and
  >>> confirm if it now works with kernel 2.6.21.
  >>>
  >>> Cheers!
  >>>
  >>> Daniel
  >>>
  >>>
  >>
  >>
  >>--
  >>- Tuukka J. / 50% of Tripteaser / 50% of Solarians
  >>