[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth - gave it a try, but...

[Yan Seiner]

Thomas Baker wrote:

>Thanks to everyone who replied to the "too good to be true" thread.  It 
>was very informitive and it looks like many of you have had very 
>positive experiences with KnoppMyth.  Given that, I decided to give it a 
>try.  I made it through the manual configuration (I have a SATA drive) 
>and rebooted my machine, but I get a "Kernel Panic" message.  I have a 
>feeling it may be a problem with my partitions.  I'm used to GUI 
>partitioning a la Red Hat and not the command line/cfdisk method.  There 
>is also a message above the panic line that says to put a "root=" line 
>in the boot instructions.  I'm new to LILO (normally a GRUB user) and I 
>am unsure how to do this.  If anyone has any suggestions or where I can 
>find a more detailed n00b friendly partitioning guide, it would be much 
>appreciated.
>  
>
SATA can give you serious heartburn.... The problem is that the drives 
are identified as IDE (/dev/hd*) during the install, but the kernel then 
wants to treat them as SCSI (/dev/sd*), so it can't find them.

Try using root=/dev/sda1 in the command line.  Sorry, it's been a while 
since I used LILO; I can't give you the particulars.

--Yan