Known issue, already in an FAQ, published yesterday afternoon at
www.netraverse.com/support.
So hopefully we can share the knowledge with those who aren't sure about
this. This will affect
scsi users on at least Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.1 for right now.
Mike
At 01:34 AM 5/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
> <snip>
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
>
> DAMN! I thought. But they don't call me "bulldog" (as in persistent)
>for nothing. I was fortunately able to boot back using the "linux" kernel,
>which looked like it was nonetheless starting Win4Lin, but that's apparently
>a startup script. That proved obvious when I tried to run "winsetup", which
>proceeded on until I was advised that the win4lin drivers weren't loaded.
>
> I then tried a trick that proved necessary under an earlier Red Hat
>install - building a new initrd image using "mkinitrd". That worked! But how
>many among the Win4Lin target population would have come up with that one
>(outside this knowledgeable group, of course)? Windows installed OK, but it
>took a few tries before it would hold my chosen resolution; it kept
>defaulting
>back to 800x600. The final test (it's getting late!) was the Citrix ICA
>dialup.
>Serial performance through my V.90 modem proved *much* faster now that I can
>go beyond 19200. Some display problems though - images sometimes fuzzed
>over.
>
> More tests tomorrow.
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