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Before it hangs, it says, in part

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ide1 at 0x170-0x176, 0x376 on irq15

VFS: Cannot open root device 03:08

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08

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> > baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org 
> Wed Oct 17 09:49:04 EDT 2007 

Sindi had said as follows (mostly snipped):

> So we put in a Promise Ultra100 controller card

I just did the same.

> Linux booted using the onboard controller, but with the PCI-IDE
> controller cannot open /dev/hda or any other hard drive when I boot
> with 2-floppy BL3, and won't boot at all from hard disk (BL2 ramdisk,
> BL3 loop, ext2 BL  - boot process stops partway through). 

I'd had BL 3.5 installed to /dev/hda8, and it worked fine when the HD 

was connected to the motherboard IDE:

(part of GRUB's menu.lst:)
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title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title BL 3.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /baslin/zimage root=/dev/hda8 rw
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But when it's plugged in to the ULTRA100 controller,
what I got was kernel panic - it can't seem to find something it 
needs ?

Can some Linux expert please help?


Thanks,

Sheldon


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