Hi your problem might be that your initrd is not loading the libata drive for the devices! Thus they do not exist at boot up time, there for you can not mount it.
Some initrd's have an option to goto to a shell whilst still in initrd phase. Try that and have a look around, although the command available to you are rather liminited Another thought is did you change your grub/lilo to change the root device ? What exactly is the error message ? Alex On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:58:26PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > >I've heard (but not confirmed) the latest 2.6 > > SATA drivers do live under /dev/sd* instead of /dev/hd*. You'll need to > > confirm the your kernel actually supports it.> > I'm talking about 2.6.8 and up - they default to libata which refers to > SATA drives as SCSI and hence sda1 etc. so to load this kernel which > wants sda*, on a system built for 2.6.7 i.e. hda*, what do I change > apart from fstab ? > I can bootup 2.6.10 compiled to inhibit libata, and it accepts hda* > fine.. I'm using it as I speak... but this is deprecated. > So.. to bootup 2.6.10 using (the recommended) libata, I believe the > question is how do I rename my partitions to sda* ? > Changing the grub files and fstab didn't work. > I've asked this question before but still no luck. man fstab didn't help > me.. I'll RTFM if I can find what FM to RT. > cheers > Rod > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel > > Keith Hopkins wrote: > >Rod Butcher wrote: > > > >>Hello sluggers, if I want to change the name of a drive & partition > >>from say hda1 to sda1, what do I need to do in addition to updating > >>/etc/fstab ? If I just change fstab and try to boot a kernel using > >>libata to access SATA drives, it can't find /dev/sda. > >>thanks > >>Rod > > > > > >Hi Rod, > > > > You can't just "change it" for the sake of changing it. The device > >name is (for the most part) assigned by the driver that controls that > >device. Once upon a time, SATA drives fell under the /dev/hd* model. > >If your kernel has that set of drivers, then you are stuck with > >/dev/hda, /dev/hda1, etc. I've heard (but not confirmed) the latest 2.6 > >SATA drivers do live under /dev/sd* instead of /dev/hd*. You'll need to > >confirm the your kernel actually supports it. > > > > Try booting your kernel into single user mode, and looking at dmesg to > >see how it maps the drives. You might even manage a `fdisk -l` > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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