Fedora Core 2 Upgraded Kernel Won't Boot

[David Bullock]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:48:46 -0700, in
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general you wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 21:30, David Bullock wrote:
>> Here's my grub.conf
>
>>     title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
>>             root (hd0,0)
>>             kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=/dev/md1
>>             initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
>> 
>>     title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
>>             root (hd0,0)
>>             kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/md1 hdm=noprobe
>>     hdo=noprobe
>Why the hdm-noprobe hdo=noprobe on the 358 and not on the 521?
>
>- Jerry

Hi Jerry,

The noprobe is irrelevant so far only because 2.6.8-1 doesn't even
uncompress let alone get to detecting and enumerating the drives.

I do need to noprobe those two disks though, because the Silicon Image
SATA RAID controller on the ASUS Motherboard has to wait until the
drives time out before continuing.  Noprobe'ing them significantly
speeds up boot.  If I don't noprobe them everything still goes fine,
the kernel just waits until the drive checks time out which takes a
long time.

- Dave