Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:10:38 -0700 | From | Steven Cole <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301") |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
>> I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. >> For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: >> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1) >> [snipped] > > Please set CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y. Check that this causes CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0, > then retest.
Yes, that worked. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 now boots OK, but hdb1 seems to be missing.
[root@spc1 steven]# uname -r 2.6.11-rc4-mm1-GX110 [root@spc1 steven]# mount -t reiser4 /dev/hdb1 /reiser4_testing mount: special device /dev/hdb1 does not exist
Reading another post (and looking in /dev), I tried hdq:
[root@spc1 steven]# mount -t reiser4 /dev/hdq1 /reiser4_testing [root@spc1 steven]# df -T Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext3 304M 75M 214M 26% / /dev/hda9 reiserfs 8.3G 3.9G 4.4G 48% /home /dev/hda8 ext3 464M 8.1M 432M 2% /tmp /dev/hda6 ext3 7.4G 1.7G 5.4G 24% /usr /dev/hda7 ext3 1.9G 86M 1.7G 5% /var /dev/hdq1 reiser4 18G 217M 18G 2% /reiser4_testing
Snipped from dmesg:
hda: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD200BB-75AUA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 40011300 sectors (20485 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39693/16/63, UDMA(66) hda: cache flushes not supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(66) hdb: cache flushes not supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
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