Re: Serial ATA on Dell Dimension 8300 (Was: Re: Serial ATA supportin 2.4.22)

[Jeff Garzik]

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.

	Jeff



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