[NCLUG] Fedora 8 install

[bsimpson at att.net]

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>
> bsimpson at att.net wrote:
> > I've just installed Fedora 8 on my laptop (eMachine M5312) but it
> > fails to boot, stopping with the following two lines:
> > 
> >   Loading ata_generic.ko module
> >   Trying to resume from /dev/sda8
> > 
> > where it just hangs.  On the same machine I have a working Fedora
> > Core 4 install, and it refers to the (single) harddrive by hda
> > and its partitions as hda1 - 11.  (Yes, I use a lot of partitions.)
> > During installation of Fedora 8 I noticed that it refers to the
> > harddrive as sda and its partitions as sda1 - 11.  Why the
> > discrepancy, and might this be the cause of the hang?
> 
> Fedora changed to libsata, so everything is named sd* now. sda is
> equivalent to FC4's hda on your system.
> 
> In you grub.conf, there's no doubt an option "resume=sda8" or similar.
> You could try removing that (I assume you know how to do this with a
> boot disk since you're extracting initrds...)

Actually it's from the statement:  resume /dev/sda8
that appears within the init file that is contained within the
initrd file.  (And I'm actually using lilo for various reasons, and
no resume option is being fed to the kernel.)

So that's why I was looking at altering initrd.

Brian S