Hi! I'm using a vanilla kernel (2.6.22) and am trying to switch from the old IDE drivers to libata for my PATA hard disk (currently the root is /dev/hda2). I've compiled a kernel with just the libata portion but when I try to boot I get the following message: vfs: cannot open root device UUID=blahblah or unknown-block (0,0)
My /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst have the correct UUID for the root fs, what can be wrong here that it can't properly find the root fs ?
More information:
1. Libata and PATA are configured _not_ as a module, they're static in the kernel.
2. I'm not using initrd.
3. I've tried to boot from grub with root=/dev/sda2 instead of using UUID, but had the same error.
4. I've an force2 motherboard and am using the CONFIG_PATA_AMD option.
Switching to Libata drivers
Hi! I'm using a vanilla kernel (2.6.22) and am trying to switch from the old IDE drivers to libata for my PATA hard disk (currently the root is /dev/hda2). I've compiled a kernel with just the libata portion but when I try to boot I get the following message: vfs: cannot open root device UUID=blahblah or unknown-block (0,0)
My /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst have the correct UUID for the root fs, what can be wrong here that it can't properly find the root fs ?
More information:
1. Libata and PATA are configured _not_ as a module, they're static in the kernel.
2. I'm not using initrd.
3. I've tried to boot from grub with root=/dev/sda2 instead of using UUID, but had the same error.
4. I've an force2 motherboard and am using the CONFIG_PATA_AMD option.
Thanks in advance for any comment about this.
JC