K3b: ide-scsi

ted ted at trufflesdad.plus.com
Thu Jan 1 18:16:23 UTC 2004


Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:00:51 -0500 (EST), Krikket wrote:
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>>Folks, just a quick word of warning before you attempt this...
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>>Yesterday afternoon, I edited /etc/grub.conf to add "hdx=ide-scsi".  (I'm
>>saying hdx, becuase I forget the correct letter for my configuration.
>>Needless to say, I checked the dmesg output to find the correct drive
>>letter.)
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>>But when I got around to rebooting the system, GRUB choked, and choked
>>hard.  It could no longer recognize the Linux partitions.
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>That "hdx=ide-scsi" is a kernel parameter
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>  $ cat /proc/cmdline 
>  ro root=LABEL=root hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
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>and GRUB does not care about it at all. It just passes it on to the
>kernel. I have doubts that it can cause GRUB to "choke" or eat your config
>file. Or do you mean that the kernel was seriously confused by the
>hdx=ide-scsi parameter and malfunctioned?
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>>Load up the Fedora CD #1 and run "linux rescue".  While I was not able to
>>enter and move about the file system, the grub.conf file had vanished...
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>>I ended up having to do a reinstall from scratch.  I wasn't even given the
>>option of upgrading a previous install.
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>What else was damaged or missing? Just grub.conf? You could have recreated
>that file to fix your system.
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As a matter of interest...Does the newer kernel need the ide-scsi
call ??...My ide cdrom player works ok without it...

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Regards
  Ted Wager
   Mepis Linux user






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