[mythtv-users] Kernel Panic - SCSI & IDE

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:47 +0100, Robin Hill wrote:
> On Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 02:12:41AM +1000, Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
> 
> > Robin Hill wrote:
> > > I'd suggest removing/commenting out the splashimage and hiddenmenu lines
> > > in your menu.lst - this'll make sure you aren't missing anything.  You
> > > can then check whether the menu you're given at boot is the one you're
> > > expecting (at the menu, choose to edit the command and make sure it
> > > matches your menu.lst).  Also check that the SCSI drive is picked up
> > > correctly during the boot process, and is mapped to /dev/sda.
> > >
> > Thanks Robin
> > 
> > I went ahead and edited menu.lst, taking out the splash and hiddenmen
> > plus I upped the timeout to 120. But....it doesn't even present a menu,
> > it dies well before that by the looks.
> > 
> > Back to square one....
> > 
> Not quite - if you're not getting a menu then it's not reading your
> menu.lst at all.  What actually comes up during boot?  After the BIOS
> screens, you should get a brief message from GRUB (something about
> loading stage 2 I think), followed by the menu.  Alternately, it may be
> finding an old GRUB/LILO installation on the IDE disk and booting from
> that instead - is there any way to force the BIOS to boot from SCSI
> before IDE?  Usually SCSI is a separate boot option than the normal hard
> disk boot.  You could also check whether the menu is coming up properly
> without the IDE disk installed.

Also, since RedHat variants like to label your partitions for some
reason, you may want to make sure there are not 2 with the same label.

-Greg