Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Serial ATA on Dell Dimension 8300 (Was: Re: Serial ATA support in 2.4.22) | From | Martin List-Petersen <> | Date | Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:52:51 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 23:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Martin List-Petersen wrote: > > I simply can't figure out, whats wrong here. > > The last line gives it away... > > > > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > > ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 > > ICH5: chipset revision 2 > > ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > > ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.2 > > ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2 > > ICH5-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 18 > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfea0-0xfea7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > > hda: ST3120026AS, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50) > > hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50) > > blk: queue c041d460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > > hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > ide0 at 0xfe00-0xfe07,0xfe12 on irq 18 > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > hda: attached ide-disk driver. > > hda: host protected area => 1 > > hda: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14589/255/63, UDMA(33) > > hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. > > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. > > hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > Partition check: > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > > You gave it an incorrect root= statement. The IDE driver picks up > ICH5-SATA, as you see above, so you would use root=/dev/hda1 or whatever.
No .. that's exactly the point. Check the other dmesg out, which is the same machine, same partitions, same kernel-config (nearly) just another kernel. It's not the root= boot option that is wrong. that is correct.
It points to /dev/sda2 and that is exactly the same partition i boot to every time.
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