🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:31:23 +0000, Neil Shaw
<N.R.M.Shaw@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

>> hdc: CD-ROM
>> hdd: CD-RW
>> hde: HDD

I saw something like this at a friend's computer (he could afford some
dual-CPU-high-value-motherboard).
The problem/case was that his cd-reader and toaster are at IDE
Secondary, taking hdc and hdd, and then, his harddisks at
UltraDMA-Controller were detected as hde/hdf. This seems to be because
Linux has hda/b for the ide0, ide1->c/d  ....
And it seems to "see" the usual IDE before the UDMA66 controller.

As it says in SuSE-Linux 7.1 manual
"what does that *login:* error message mean", I think it's not that
place at which boot process hangs :-) but will be somewhere near the
place where it tries to mount your root filesystem !? In this case I
think you misconfigured your lilo/chos/syslinux/bootmanager to watch
for your root partition at /dev/hda1 or so, and that doesnt work. So
try to use some emergency boot feature perhaps supplied with your
distribution, and try to specify hdex instead of hdax as boot
partition. Or install LOADLIN (dos-based linux-booter). Available in
the net. With loadlin of course your problem is to get your kernel
from somewhere, but with MY distrib, it is somewhere on the DVD (or
CDROM resp.) and so I can use it from there.

Have a lot of fun....

Anselm