HDAMA + FILO

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Craig C. Forney wrote:

> Unfortunately when Linux is booting up and attempts to mount the root
> file system, it chokes complaining that it can't mount the root device
> (the entry is fine, and linux reports the root device properly as it
> tries to mount it).

can you send the messages. We used to have this type of problem, and it 
was almost always partitioning issues or block numbering issues. Linux 
acts a little differently when there is no BIOS information describing the 
drive.

> I suspect that maybe FILO has done something naughty to the IDE
> registers, as I think the root mount is the first work the kernel is
> doing on the disk. 

dubious. I'm pretty sure that's not it.

ron