Hello Olaf, Thanks for your reply; I have a few more questions: Also, I should mention that my CDrom and Hd are both on the secondary IDE channel -- the primary ideo chanel is ata-66/100 and not supported by suse 7.3. I realize some of this might be fixed by installing the lastest kernel, but that is not an option. This work is for a telecom company which has many embeded linux systems deployed through out Europe. We *must* use the same kernel as they do -- everything must be *exactly* the same at the telecom company -- they are very strict about this.
Try to set the boot path manually:
find /proc/device-tree/ -name device_type | xargs grep -wl block
this will give you something like:
/proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/ADPT,2930CU@3/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@21000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk/device_type
I see: /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@17/ata-3@20000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk/device_type
ata-3 is likely the CD/ZIP drive, ata-4 is the hard drive. Maybe you have an alias for hdc in /proc/device-tree/aliases.
ultra1 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@1" ultra0 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@0" zip "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@1" cd "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@0" hd "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@0" ide1 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@1" ide0 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@0"
ide0:9,/boot/vmlinux would be a valid path for my hdc/CD.
I do not have an alias for hdc, but I do have ide0/1, hd, cd: cd /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-3@20000/disk@0 hd /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0 ide0 /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-3@20000/disk@0 ide1 /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-3@20000/disk@1 Sorry for my ignorance, but how would I set my boot path based on this output? Thank you! Dominic