Bug 2720

Summary:	lilo not passing right root= parameter
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	steven.carbonari
Component:	lilo	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	dledford
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Description steven.carbonari 1999-05-10 20:24:12 UTC

On an Intel Sitka Platform (4-way Xeon, Symbios 896
on-board SCSI) after initial installation the install kernel
panic's (not able to find root filesystem).  I have talked
to Doug Ledford at Red Hat and he says this is a known
problem and was thought to be fixed in a beta version.  We
have recreated the problem on several Sitka's at Intel
using Red Hat 6.0 Gold.

Comment 1 jxh 1999-05-10 21:19:59 UTC

It seems that something goes wrong in parsing the lilo.conf file. If
I use the lilo.conf file installed by default everything works fine.
But if I replace the
prompt
timeout=50
sequence
with
delay=20
the kernel panics (not able to find root file system). This is on a
Dell Inspiron 3200.

Comment 2 Doug Ledford 1999-05-13 05:54:59 UTC

A new lilo version is now under testing from Werner Almesberger.  We
will be working with him on this and should have an updated version
soon.  The test version currently available is lilo-22dev0 and is
available from the ftp site
ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/lilo/lilo-22dev0.tar.gz

Comment 3 Cristian Gafton 1999-09-20 15:19:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4758 ***