-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My first guess is that the driver for the SATA chipset is not enabled or is set as a module. If it is the latter then you need an initrd with support for that chipset. It has been a very long time since I have had to manually build an initrd image (Debian/Ubuntu make this ridiculously easy).
Some initrd pointers: http://www.faqs.org/docs/evms/x3834.html and http://www.opennet.ru/docs/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-11.html Of course you could just build your file system and SATA drivers directly into your kernel. You may also wish to check that your grub or lilo config points to your initrd image if you already have one. Cheers, Roy Souther wrote: > If you include these numbers that you replaced with X's then the answer > becomes clearer. > The numbers tell what module for the device is missing. > > Aren't all new Dell's coming with SATA drives now? If so then your > numbers would be some thing like > unknown-block(8,1) or unknown-block(8,5) > > You can boot a kernel with Reiserfs and (S)ATA modules but you need to > use an initrd to start the system, it will need to contain a copy of the > modules, insmod and a script to load them. There are programs that build > initrd's automatically but I find they do a crappy job of it and I like > to build my initrd files manually. > > On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:49 -0600, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: >> VFS: Cannot open root device "xxx" or unknown-block(x,x) > > _Royce Souther <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>_ > _www.SiliconTao.com <http://www.SiliconTao.com>_ > Let Open Source help your business move beyond. > > For security this message is digitally authenticated by _GnuPG > <http://www.gnupg.org>_. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9x0UwRXgH3rKGfMRAqX+AJwJaxSPVBR0CPUJu+fnnhIrRVFoTwCfaUfM 1vzLLLKaEpvrKwJ2h/o6wSI= =YTdG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
