maxim wexler wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. Here's where things
stand:
I did a fresh 2005.1 stage3 install onto the SATA
drive without a hitch. I removed the ide drive, so
there's only one hd.
In dmesg the drive comes up as /dev/sda
sda1(Macro$haft) sda2(/boot) < sda5(swap) sda6(/)
sda7(home)>
When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do:
grub> root (hd0,1)
Fs is ext2, part type 0x83
grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31]
...so far, so good...
grub> boot
and get:
...VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unknown
block (0,0)
Please append correct "root" boot option
Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on unknown block (0,0)
So grub loads abd boots the Linux kernel, but the kernel can't mount the
root FS on /dev/sda6. So /dev/sda6 doesn't exist for some reason, which
could be one of:
1) There is no /dev/sda6 partition
2) You haven't compiled in support for your SATA controller in the kernel
There are two ways of doing SATA on Linux, one is through the IDE layer,
which is deprecated and I strongly recommend against, the other is using
libata through the SCSI layer.
So I'm at a loss. The grub commands went alright.
Wouldn't I get an error if one of the commands was
wrong? Don't know what's meant by "unknown block
(0,0)". Is it saying it's trying to mount / on
/dev/sda1? Doesn't make sense.
That means it has no idea what sda6 is, that there is no such device.
HTH,
Chris
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