I'm in the process of setting up a KnoppMyth server R5B7, but am having some installation issues. Here are some of the specs.

PIII 866MHz
256MB RAM
200GB Western Digital HD using a Promise Ultra 100 TX2
A couple optical drives on the MB controllers

The Promise controller is needed to see the entire capacity of the drive.

Originally it would not install at all and had to rearrange some of the cards and got the following message:

/usr/local/bin/KnoppMyth-auto: line 608: / 1000000: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/ 10000000")

I was able to get by this and get the OS installed by booting with the ide=reverse option.

Now during boot up I get the following message:

VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

Thanks,

You should have done a manual install. Odds are, ini lilo.conf root= isn't accurate. This should most likely be /dev/hde. You can try to use the CD to repair this... Boot off the CD and mount the drive rw. Then chroot and to the drive, edit lilo.conf and run lilo. Finally, exit chroot and reboot.

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Thank you for the quick reply. You are correct, the lilo.conf file was pointing to /dev/hda instead of /dev/hde. This was probably a result of using the ide=reverse option at boot. I had to create a boot floppy in order to commit the lilo.conf information to the MBR, but then it booted fine.

Now that it boots up, I went through the configuration but it could not fine the tuner. I'm using a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 (1045). Here are the entries from /var/log/messages.

Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.3 (tagged release) loading
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-chw-2 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (cx23416 based)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 26052, rev C199
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: failed loading encoder firmware
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -3!
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: probe of 0000:01:06.0 failed with error -12
Apr 14 07:42:13 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================

Any ideas on this one?

Thanks,

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