kernel-2..6.17-1.2174_FC5 will not start; unknown scsi parameter on SATA laptop

[Brian Millett]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:51 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have never seen this before with any kernel updates.  Currently all
> versions 2.6.16 start fine, and the 2.6.17 before 2.7.2174 are OK.
> 
> I am running FC5 on a Dell Latitude D820 that has SATA hard disk that
> FC5 treats as scsi, and it also has a CDRom which plugs into a modular
> bay. As best I can describe it, this is a USB device, but linux will
> treat it either as ide or scsi, depending on whether the parameter
> hdc=noprobe is in the kernel start line.
> 

Paul, 
 I am currently running FC5 on a Dell D820 with the 2.6.17-1.2174
kernel.

My boot line from grub:
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp ro root=/dev/bikinibottom/root
vga=0x31a quiet hdc=noprobe

I'm using the nvidia drivers from atrpms.

Works in my office.  

[bpm]$ uname -a
Linux dufus 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 8 16:00:39 EDT 2006 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux


But I think the real problem is that you are in Kansas.  Now if you were
in St. Louis, well it just might work :-)

-- 
Brian Millett - [ Rabbi Koslov, "TKO"]
"You can not run away from your own heart, Susan, not even in space."