Hi,

I have a Dell SC400 retrofitted with 3WARE 8006 2LP (SATA RAID1) + 2 X 250G Seagate drives.

I can boot off of various live CDs (2.16.12, 2.6.15) and they all find the drive and will install into it.
However rebooting off of the installed system fails with kernel panic, failing to mount e.g. /dev/sda6 ( '/')

I have tried
pclinuxos p92
knoppix 4.0.2
gentoo 2006.0


Why won't it boot when obviously the kernel supports the hardware

Thanks,

I am having the same issue trying to get PCLos .93 BigDaddy installed. Ive read in a few semi-related threads here that USB might screw with this? If so why and is there a fix? My setup is also a SATA drive and when PClos installer partitions it sets up the drive as "sde", ie. sde1=boot, sde6=home. Very weird... Shouldnt it set it up as sda or hda?

Anyway, PCLos is great in that it actually tells you to hop on Xirc and talk to the support folks live. I did this and the folks there were totally bamboozled by this sde/sda issue. My config screen also shows PCLos setup the HD on a USB port (again, its a 320G IDE/SATA drive). Is this what could be causing the live CD install issue I hear so many folks are running into? If so, how to fix?..If not, how can I/we get our PCLos to friggin install?

It turns out the bootloader that is placed on the harddrive during install does not have the 3ware driver baked in.
The solution is build a new initrd on some other machine that includes 3ware and replace it on the machine with 3ware raid. I had a post with all the details on a pclinuxos forum, but it was lost when they had a fallout with their former ISP. Anyway, it was supposed to get fixed in 0.93

wastingtime is correct that you will have to re-create initrd file. You will need know what modules the 3ware module needs because using modinfo will not tell you.

For SCSI devices to work you will need sd_mod, SCSI modules, and the module that works with the controller. With this information you can use mkinitrd to help you make an initrd file.

mkinitrd --with=sd_mod --with=3w-xxxx [image] [kernel_version]

Check if you have the directory /initrd created or else initrd will not work.