[NCLUG] Fedora 8 install
Stephen Warren
swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sun Feb 24 22:42:10 MST 2008
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...)
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