Okay the problem is not resolved yet. I still get the cant find root at
boot-up,during install it says it is hde6 which is what it allways was with
7.2, I did get it to go further by passing the following at the promt, linux
root=/dev/hda5 ? ? ? ? ? ? HOWEVER, IT GOES TO BOOT AND CANT FIND MOST OF THE
FOLLOWING DIRECTORIES, /VAR,/ETC AND MOST OTHERS! ! ! I re-downloaded 8.0
from a differant site,verified md5sums and I am still getting the above.Any
help would be nice. The system config is as follows, two drives,a Western
Digital as master, Maxtor as slave, both connected to a Promise ATA 100 pci
card.Windows ME is the first partition, followed by swap,root,var and temp,
all on the first drive.This worked with Mandrake 7.2 and Redhat 7.1. I don't
want to move to Redhat but I am tired of fighting with this issue.Can it be a
bug with the W-D drive? Maybe the Promise ATA 100 pci card? Tonight I may try
and hook up the drives directly to motherboard but I don't know if I want to
go this far.Any thoughts?
