Debian Boot Issue

[Scott]

Hey Sean,

The 'Etch' is the current 'testing' branch of Debian, which isn't 
entirely stable and is likely to have bugs and quirks.  I'm not entirely 
sure about this one, but there is a lengthy discussion on this 
particular controller:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/4543

good luck

-Scott

Sean Roe wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am having an issue with a new Debian 'Etch' Box I am setting up,  I 
>think it has to do with it8212 raid driver.  the hardware is a 1u gigabyte 
>server with the it8212 raid controller onboard.  it is driving two 80 G 
>ide drive is a mirror.  After the install, I reboot the box, it starts to 
>reboot and it gets to the point where it starts to remount the filesystem 
>and it says "ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist, dropping to shell" anyway I 
>think it thinks the cdrom is /dev/hda so I need to know how make it think 
>the raid array is hda.  Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Sean
>
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