Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:07:47 +0100 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.28 - cannot find root fs on Acer TM 291 (ICH4-M) |
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Jan De Luyck writes: > Hello list, > > I've been a happy user on my desktop system of 2.6.28 since it's been released, > but I seem to have hit a snag on my laptop. Can't get it to boot, keeps > panicking with a VFS: cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > > I've tried several configurations, starting off the last kernel built for the > machine (2.6.25.16). I've selected the PIIX IDE driver (no SATA here), tried > with and without the advanced partition schemes, but I can't get it to boot. ... > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.28 > # Wed Dec 31 11:46:21 2008 ... > CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y > CONFIG_IDE=y > > # > # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives > # > CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set > # CONFIG_IDE_GD is not set
You need to enable IDE_GD and IDE_GD_ATA.
But I recommend that you switch to libata instead (with ata_piix driver).
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