On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun > > > [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :( > > Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? > > > SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as > > valid > > Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary > master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be > loaded? > hda is primary master, yes
> The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional: > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something > Can you post me a complete silo.conf so that I can see what the boot and root arguments should be. I'm not sure what the first line in a silo.conf should be: good worked examples would be appreciated. > If you don't have the file, you can generate it with update-initramfs. > Thanks for this - Jim's point about video=atyfb:off is also very useful. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
