On 10/23/07, James Haayen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I got the following output while trying to boot Astlinux on a Soekris 4801
> from a Trascend compact flash card:
>
>  Booting 'AstLinux (Boot from CF - Use USB KeyDisk)'
>
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

  Look here:

> kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,19200n8 astlinux=net4801
> astk
> d=/dev/sda1 ide=nodma
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x11287e]
> savedefault

..snip..

and here:
> hdb: TRANSCEND, ATA DISK drive
> SC1200: set xfer mode failure
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hdb: max request size: 128KiB
> hdb: 1993824 sectors (1020 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=1978/16/63
>  hdb: hdb1

..snip..

> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>

  Your flash card doesn't do IDE emulation properly and is showing up
as a slave device on the primary IDE controller.

> Any idea??
> I downloaded the latest image from sourceforget.net, also I tried to build
> it using ADE but something is wrong..

  You can either use a different flash card (Sandisk works well) or
modify your grub.conf to pass "root=/dev/hdb1" to the kernel.


-- 
Kristian Kielhofner

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