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> Dear,
>
> I'm having some trouble installing a Promise SATA150 TX2 Plus card
> unattended on RedHat 8.0.
> I'd want to perform an unattended harddrive installation from a DOS
> partition that contains the RedHat rpm's and my extra software.
> I downloaded the drivers (pdc-ultra.o) and added them in the initrd.img that
> I use during installation.
> I have have made the following script to load the driver after installation:
> #!/bin/bash
> INSTALL=/mnt/dos/install
> HDCTRL=SATA150
> cp $INSTALL/drivers/promise/pdc-ultra.o
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/scsi >/dev/null 2>&1
> cp -f /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.orig
> sed -e '/depmod -A/s/depmod -A/depmod -Aq/' /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
>
> mv -f /tmp/.rc.sysinit.tmp /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> echo "insmod scsi_mod
> insmod sd_mod
> insmod pdc-ultra" >>/etc/rc.modules
> case $HDCTRL in
> SATA150)
> cp /etc/lilo.conf /tmp/lilo.orig
> cp -f $INSTALL/drivers/promise/lilo.conf /etc/
> chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf
> /sbin/lilo;;
> *)
> echo "Error during controller detection";;
> esac
> After installation (and before I reboot) the /etc/lilo.conf looks like this.
> default=linux
> boot/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> restricted
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda2
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
> read-only
> other=/dev/sda1
> optional
> label=DOS
> Installation runs perfect now but the driver is not loaded when I reboot
> after installation.
> I get an error message stating:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> Can someone please help me out here ?
> Thnx in advance,
>
> Dennis
>
>

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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

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> Dennis Peere wrote:
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> Hello. The message:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
>
> is familiar to me. Is sounds like a labeling problem. In the /sbin
> directory there is a utility that will give your /dev/sda2 the label
> "/". It's called "e2label" and also change label to label=/. I hope
> that will help!
>
> -Jason
>
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