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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, Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> > Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> [snip]
> > > 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.
> 
> Here it is (ls -lR /boot/):
> 
> total 3676
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  508410 Aug  5 22:45 System.map-2.4.27
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  521488 Aug  5 23:31 System.map-2.6.18
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Dec 31  2003 boot.0300
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Dec 31  2003 boot.0303
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Dec 31  2003 boot.0304
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 Sep  3  2005 boot.b -> boot-text.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  308326 Apr  9 15:38 coffee.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   25341 Aug  5 22:33 config-2.4.27
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   34755 Aug  5 23:14 config-2.6.18
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 Sep  3  2005 debian.bmp -> /boot/sid.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  153720 Apr  9 15:38 debianlilo.bmp
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug  6 23:21 grub
> -rw------- 1 root root   33792 Feb 16  2007 map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   23662 Apr  9 15:38 sarge.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   24116 Apr  9 15:38 sid.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  873763 Aug  5 22:45 vmlinuz-2.4.27
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188132 Aug  5 23:31 vmlinuz-2.6.18
> 
> /boot/grub:
> total 196
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    197 Feb 16  2007 default
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     30 Feb 16  2007 device.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7584 Feb 16  2007 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7424 Feb 16  2007 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8192 Feb 16  2007 jfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4278 Aug  6 23:21 menu.lst
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4278 Aug  6 23:21 menu.lst~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6848 Feb 16  2007 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9280 Feb 16  2007 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 Feb 16  2007 stage1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108360 Feb 16  2007 stage2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8904 Feb 16  2007 xfs_stage1_5
> 
> > The menu.lst looks ok, if you are not using an initrd image.
> 
> I am not using such an image.

Francois

Just looked at the config file you listed for the 2.1.18 kernel.
It looks different then mine in the Block Device section.  

# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE=y
# CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set

This is from the /boot/config-2.6.18y that does not use initrd.  Maybe
you could try adding some of these to your 2.6.18 config file.

I have found that using the latest image file works great and saves me
all that compiling time.  YMMV

Regards

Wayne

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