Am Montag, den 28.11.2005, 22:34 -0800 schrieb maxim wexler: > > --- Petr Kocmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 of November 2005 17:31, maxim wexler > > wrote: > > > > > But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken. > > > > It may well depend on your chipset configuration, > > number of actually connected > > drives and bios boot settings. On my board, there > > are 2 PATA and 1 SATA > > channels on the same controller. In linux kernel, > > PATA is hda and hdb, SATA > > is hdc, no matter what drives are actually > > connected. When i migrated my > > installation from PATA hda to SATA hdc, grub > > detected hda as hd0 and hdc as > > hd1 before, but once I removed parallel drive, SATA > > become hd0 in grub (but > > still hdc in linux), since it is first (boot) bios > > drive. So I needed to fix > > grub config to hd0 and change a root= kernel > > parameter to hdc, since grub > > insists hd0 should be hda even if there is no drive > > connected on PATA: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdc1 > > is this a gentoo box? > > > > > Also, I did grub setup on SATA MBS > > what's "MBS"? > > > from booted grub shell, not in linux, > > because what it sees is what it gets then. > > > > Hope this may help you. > > Thanks for your suggestions. Here's where things > stand: > > I did a fresh 2005.1 stage3 install onto the SATA > drive without a hitch. I removed the ide drive, so > there's only one hd. > > In dmesg the drive comes up as /dev/sda > sda1(Macro$haft) sda2(/boot) < sda5(swap) sda6(/) > sda7(home)> > > When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83 > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31]
Shouldn't that read root=/dev/sda2 since your kernel obviously sits in /boot == /dev/sda2 ? The root paramter should define the place where your kernel / grub stage files reside IIRC and not where your root filesystem is located. Naming the parameter root is quite misleading though. > > ...so far, so good... > > grub> boot > > and get: > > ...VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unknown > block (0,0) > Please append correct "root" boot option > Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on unknown block (0,0) > > So I'm at a loss. The grub commands went alright. > Wouldn't I get an error if one of the commands was > wrong? Don't know what's meant by "unknown block > (0,0)". Is it saying it's trying to mount / on > /dev/sda1? Doesn't make sense. > > WinXP occupies 20G at /dev/sda1 and it boots OK. LBA > is activated and this is a brand new, modern drive on > a fairly up-to-date Asus, K8N, skt 754 mobo, so it > can't be that old BIOS drive limit from the 90s. > > -mw > > > > > -- > > Petr > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
