>I miss information about the SCSI controller in the PC. Adaptec AIC-7899 >Is IDE disabled in the BIOS? I suspect there are not IDE drives, even CD-ROMs, connected? IDE is enabled - This has a CD Rom drive, a cd burner, and a zip drive. Here is the output of fdisk -l: Disk /dev/sda: 9105 MB, 9105018368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1105 8875881 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 9105 MB, 9105023488 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 979 7863786 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 980 1106 1020127+ 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sdc: 9105 MB, 9105018368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 979 7863786 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 980 1106 1020127+ 82 Linux swap And here is my grub device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb And here is my grub.conf: default 1 timeout 5 splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 And when I turn off the rhgb quiet stuff, these are the last lines of the boot sequence before it fails (is there some way I can capture this to a file?): Red hat nash version 4.1.18 starting Mounted /proc filesystem Mounting sysfs Creating /dev Starting udev Loading reiserfs.ko module Creating root device Mounting root filesystem Mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs Mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root Switchroot: mount failed: 22 Umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! <Hang>
