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Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)



Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On 8/24/07, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote:
> > >
<--<snip>-->
> > Is the disk really a PATA or is it SATA?  2.4 kernels will see them as
> > /dev/hd* whereas 2.6 kernels will see them as /dev/sd*
> 
> It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and
> an 80GB Western Digital drive, for sur not SATA, I bought this
> computer in december 2000. The motherboard is an ABIT KT7 (no RAID,
> VIA chipsets). Right now I am not using the kernel's VIA chipset
> driver because it causes me some troubles (see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00252.html and the rest
> of the thread).

I am using the same MB with less Mem but 160G HD to write this.  I
would like to see the contents of the /boot dir. 

The menu.lst looks ok, if you are not using an initrd image.  I have
both methods in my menu.lst.

-----------
title       Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18y Default--------------  SID - HDA2
root        (hd0,1)
kernel      /boot/bzImage-2.6.18y root=LABEL=SID vga=792 ro
savedefault

title       Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 ---------------   ETCH - HDB1
lock
root        (hd1,0)
kernel      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-k7 root=/dev/hdb1 vga=792 ro
initrd      /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-k7
savedefault
---------------

I found something yesterday while working on another box that _might_ help.

In the title line had Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 but got an error similar 
to what you are seeing.  When I checked /boot I had a bzImage-2.6.18y but not a 
bzImage-2.6.18.  I corrected the title line in menu.lst and it then
worked, of course.

Wayne

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