[NCLUG] Ok, trying 2.6 kernel

[Michael Crosiar]

Well, it was IDE modules being built as modules.

Thanks to Kevin at Tummy.com, all is well now.


--- Gabriel Somlo <somlo at acns.colostate.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:32:07PM -0800, Michael
> Crosiar wrote:
> 
> > What I'm getting now is:
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc3" or unknown
> block
> > (0,0)
> > 
> > My /boot partition is on hdc1 and is ext3 and my
> root
> > is on hdc3 and is jfs. Both ext3 and jfs are
> compiled
> > into the kernel, not as modules. As you can see I
> also
> > tried mkinitrd - but the image would not fit into
> the
> > ram disk.
> > 
> > Here are the entries of import in grub menu.lst:
> > 
> > title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.9
> > root            (hd1,0)
> > kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.9 root=/dev/hdc3 ro
> > #initrd         /initrd.img-2.6.9
> > savedefault
> > boot
> > 
> > Anyone encounter this? Nothing in google has
> helped.
> 
> Any chance you have a SATA disk / controller in that
> box ? I just
> hosed one of my FC2 boxes today by upgrading to
> their latest
> 2.6.9-something kernel from the previous one
> (2.6.8-something), and
> the only thing that makes it different from the ones
> that didn't get
> hosed is that it has a SATA hard drive...
> 
> If that's what you have, perhaps going with 2.6.8
> would fix your
> problem (this thing ran fine until 30 minutes or so
> ago, when I
> rebooted it with 2.6.9).
> 
> HTH,
> Gabriel
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