Hi,
>Disable INT13 BIOS extentions in the Adaptec BIOS.
>CTRL-A while booting.
>
>The Adaptec card has a bug in it's firmware, and changing this setting
>causes grub to use different calls to load the system.
>If you Adaptec card has a flash rom chip, then upgrade to the latest
>Adaptec firmware.
I couldn't figure out how to disable the INT13 BIOS extensions.
I feel that I'm going nowhere. Let me summarize what's happening.
I turn the machine on (or press reset) and after the usual BIOS
and SCSI introductions I get the "grub>" prompt. So I do:
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.20-28-9smp
grub> boot
The machine starts gunziping the kernel but after a few lines it
stops with the following last 4 lines:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-72, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 48:05
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 48:05
>From there, the only way to get out is by pressing the reset button,
ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I should point out that some time
in the past I was able to start the system with lilo. Is there
anything inherently incompatible with my hardware (HP Vectra XW +
adaptec AIC-7880) and grub? Thanks.
Dan
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