Yeah, here's my thoughts: Don't think about installing Mandrake over several drives. I
was trying
that for the longest time, wondering WHAT could be the problem, until a friend
informed me that
someone he knew went through the same headaches and they all went away when he stopped
trying to
span Mandrake across 2 drives. At that point i was desperate just to have a working
installation
so i took his advice and kaboom, it worked. Then, AFTER i had a working installation,
i moved
things around so my partitions were on the drives i wanted. I used a combination of
diskdrake and
editing /etc/fstab to get what i wanted. Another piece of advice: try not to move
root, it can be
a hassle. Install on whatever drive you want / to be on. The others will move much
more easily.
Good luck,
j
--- Dale Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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