On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 07:02, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm also installing new kernel. > My partitions are EXT3 and i configured them to load in the kernel. > Drives are also sata and my current configuration works fine (debian > installation from internet). > > Now i configured my new kernel and when i want to boot it, my latest > lines are: > > VFS: cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > This means -i think- that it can't *see* the ext3 partition but i > configured it to load in the kernel?? > I'm using grub and added a new title etc for my new kernel and i am not > using initrd. > The 2.6.8 kernel uses libata for SATA drives which means you need SCSI, libata, and a SATA driver compiled in as well. You will also need to change hda to sda in grub because it's now going to be seen as a SCSI device at boot time. -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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