Ed Kasky wrote:
> I am in the process of upgrading one machine and installed
> a Promise Ultra 100 controller. I have Win2000 installed
> on the first ata100 hd using NTFS.
>
> During the partitioning I noticed that install recognizes
> the 2 drives as hde and hdf since this is an add on card.
> I am assuming it would use hda-hdd if I had any connected
> directly to the motherboard.
>
> Here's the newest error:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hdf1" on 21:41
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 21:41
>
> Where do I put the boot option so that it can mount the
> root partition from hdf1?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Ed
> ~~
> Ed Kasky
> Los Angeles, CA
> . . . . . . . .
> The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know
> when you are finished.
Ed....had almost the same error last night when I installed
8.0 on an Abit motherboard with a hypoint dma100 RAID
controller. I partitioned and installed the system on the
hde drive. Upon initial boot of the installed system it
issued a kernal panic and said:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hde6" on 20:06
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs on 20:06
I used a floppy based rescue disk called RIP-rescue:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
to boot the system and changed all references to hde to hdc
(hda is a zip drive and hdb is a CDRom) in /etc/lilo.conf and
/etc/fstab. Then after executing /sbin/lilo I was able to
boot up normally. This may also apply to your promise
controller.
--
Alan
