Re: still no luck with grub

[Daniel Senderowicz]

Hi,

>Disable INT13 BIOS extentions in the Adaptec BIOS.
>CTRL-A while booting.
>
>The Adaptec card has a bug in it's firmware, and changing this setting 
>causes grub to use different calls to load the system.
>If you Adaptec card has a flash rom chip, then upgrade to the latest 
>Adaptec firmware.

I couldn't figure out how to disable the INT13 BIOS extensions.

I feel that I'm going nowhere. Let me summarize what's happening.
I turn the machine on (or press reset) and after the usual BIOS
and SCSI introductions I get the "grub>" prompt. So I do:

        grub> root (hd0,0)
        grub> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.20-28-9smp
        grub> boot

The machine starts gunziping the kernel but after a few lines it
stops with the following last 4 lines:

        kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-72, errno = 2
        VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 48:05
        Please append a correct "root=" boot option
        Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 48:05

>From there, the only way to get out is by pressing the reset button,
ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I should point out that some time
in the past I was able to start the system with lilo. Is there
anything inherently incompatible with my hardware (HP Vectra XW +
adaptec AIC-7880) and grub? Thanks.

Dan