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Originally Posted by subjazz
boot: test26.s
Slackware 10.2 does not see hard drive when entering cfdisk but see's my cdrom only. Is there a solution for this?
I read that this might work: boot: test26.s root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro. I don't understand the noinitrd ro part.
For now Slackware will not install due to it wanting to see my dvd/cdrom instead of my hard drive for partitioning.
Help appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi,
I will respond to your question for the;
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boot: test26.s root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro
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This would be used to boot the test26.s kernel for the root of device hda1 with no init ram disk and mount it read only. You can get information using;
Dugan gave you some good information concerning the boot.
If want to diagnos the problem. When you boot the OS you could do a;
Code:
#fdisk -l #to see disk device recognized
#dmesg |grep hd #this should show /dev/hd* seen
#lspci -vv #show pci device
I suspect as dugan does that you are using SATA for the hard disk storage media.