RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425

[Richard Hobbs]

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion. I tried ide0=noprobe etc... and it made
no difference. The kernel still booted, and still hung when remounting
the root fs as read/write.

Any other ideas??

Thanks again,
Hobbs.


Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:54:38PM +0200, R. de Kuijer wrote:
>> Hello Richard,
>>
>> It is strange but SATA uses sd* instead of hd*.
>> SATA always make sure it begins with sda , not depending which 
>> controllerport it uses.
>> The dvd-drive should always get the hda.
> 
> To the OP ... perhaps the IDE driver is picking up your SATA drives first
> and thus the SATA driver doesn't get a chance.
> 
> You could use ide0=noprobe and ide1=noprobe as boot options to keep the IDE
> drvier from jumping in when it shouldn't...
> 
> I've used this with RHEL4 on some HP SATA servers that would use the IDE
> driver instead of the SATA driver for drive access.
> 
> Ray
> 

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