kernel panics please help
 

yeah well i just installed linux .... i have a cd burner
that i want to work and the kernel arguments
at start are "hd=ide-scsi" and when trys to boot
with this i get a kernel panic ... something about
not syncing .... and it will not go any further.
but if i edit this and take out the scsi part it boots
fine ... is there any way that i could leave this in
and still bee able to boot? or anyway that one
could get around this and still burn a cd?

thank you in advance for your reply,
valleyman

Shouldn't that be hdN=ide-scsi where N is a, b, c, ,d etc?

Welcome to LinuxQuestions BTW.

cheers

Jamie...

oh yeah ... it is hdd. sorry about that i forgot the extra d

The simple ones are often the hardest to spot!

Not that I've ever wasted days of my time on similar problems of my own, honest :rolleyes:

Jamie...

no no no ... i was saying that i forgot to put the extra d in the post ... the problem is still there ...

can you post the exact error msg? we can't guess what is your problem.

all that it says is something along the lines of no shit you can't guess , no but really .. it says
kernel panic. Aiee! handler not syncing

can you just write it down and give it to us????

Isn't the parameter you want infact hdd=scsi, just looked at the comments in the kernel source.

cheers

Jamie...

thanks jamie that helped alot ... it works now thank you. :)

oh bugger that is not your name is it
:) oops

Ah!!! I think I have made the same mistake!!

I've got the same error in the boot.

That was a very fortunate post, valleyman.

Glad you got it working :)

Jamie...