On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Craig C. Forney wrote: > Unfortunately when Linux is booting up and attempts to mount the root > file system, it chokes complaining that it can't mount the root device > (the entry is fine, and linux reports the root device properly as it > tries to mount it).
can you send the messages. We used to have this type of problem, and it was almost always partitioning issues or block numbering issues. Linux acts a little differently when there is no BIOS information describing the drive. > I suspect that maybe FILO has done something naughty to the IDE > registers, as I think the root mount is the first work the kernel is > doing on the disk. dubious. I'm pretty sure that's not it. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
