Necro....AFAIK "vga=0x0301" in lilo.conf sets the video mode for
the console to something other than the standard 24x80. I sure
don't understand what effect it could have on mounting your root
filesystem.
Alan
Necrotica wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have recently installed Mandrake 7.02 on both of my home machines. Oddly
> enough, on both of them I had the exact same problem. The installation would
> go fine, but when the machine rebooted I would get a kernel panic because it
> was not able to mount the root filesystem. On both machines Mandrake was
> installed on its own seperate hard drive (slave on the primary controller).
>
> The first machine is an AMD Athlon 700 (Viper chipset) and the second is an
> IBM Aptiva Pentium II 266.
>
> Whats weird about this was the solution. :) If I add to the
> append line of lilo.conf, rerun lilo, the filesystem mounts fine.
>
> Heh, don't think for a second that figured out this solution from the ground
> up. :) I noticed it after installing numerous distros of Linux on one machine
> and having the exact same problem. I then installed SuSE 6.3 and it actually
> worked. I noticed that it appended vga=0x0301 to lilo.conf so I tried it out
> on Mandrake - it worked.
>
> Sure enough, if I remove it right now, it won't be able to mount the root fs.
>
> Can anyone tell me what this parameter does? Or why it was necessary to add
> it to the only two machines in the world I have installed Linux on? Was this
> a fluky thing that just happened to work? I'd be interested in hearing whats
> up with this. Thanks...
>
> -Necro
