[64studio-devel] Version 2.0 boot failure

[William McCanless]

Hello to all,

I just installed version 2.0 on my AMD64 box, Athlon 64 2800+ on a
PCCHIPS M848A board, with 1 gig memory, CD-rom, Pioneer DVD -+rw, and 2
Seagate 120 gig IDE hard drives. Install was to hdb, with Suse 10.1
running on hda. Install seemed to go fine, but stops right after boot
begins, with message:

   Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

After some time, it prints messages:

   Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
   or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
   ALERT! /dev/hdb1 does not exist
   Dropping to shell!

   BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash)
   /bin/sh: can't access tty;

   Job control turned off
   (initramfs)_

I have read everything I can find on the mail lists and forums, but
found no solutions.  I suspect the problem lies somewhere in the boot
files written into the master boot record by the installer, but I
don't know enough about Linux to access that area.  This suspicion
comes from a previous experience trying to install Debian. On that
occasion the MBR was re-written in such a way as to cause Suse not to
boot on hda.

I hope this info helps someone to help me and others,

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