On Tuesday 24 April 2001 07:55 am, you wrote:
The first thing I would do is get the WD and Maxtor Drives on two difernet
interfaces, With both of them On the same interface channel it cause's some
pretty wierd things to happen with your drives and the data on them, IE they
don't play nice with each other at all. I had this problem while doing
Crashtesting a while back and Civileme had suggested that this might be my
problem and it was, With my system it was saying I was running out of Memory
and it started shutting down services. So this is where I would look first.
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> Okay the problem is not resolved yet. I still get the cant find root at
> boot-up,during install it says it is hde6 which is what it allways was with
> 7.2, I did get it to go further by passing the following at the promt,
> linux root=/dev/hda5 ? ? ? ? ? ? HOWEVER, IT GOES TO BOOT AND CANT FIND
> MOST OF THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORIES, /VAR,/ETC AND MOST OTHERS! ! ! I
> re-downloaded 8.0 from a differant site,verified md5sums and I am still
> getting the above.Any help would be nice. The system config is as follows,
> two drives,a Western Digital as master, Maxtor as slave, both connected to
> a Promise ATA 100 pci card.Windows ME is the first partition, followed by
> swap,root,var and temp, all on the first drive.This worked with Mandrake
> 7.2 and Redhat 7.1. I don't want to move to Redhat but I am tired of
> fighting with this issue.Can it be a bug with the W-D drive? Maybe the
> Promise ATA 100 pci card? Tonight I may try and hook up the drives directly
> to motherboard but I don't know if I want to go this far.Any thoughts?
