Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:54:25 -0800 | From | Eric Wong <> | Subject | notes on 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade with a Serial ATA root |
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When using the 2.4.22-xfs kernel (Knoppix -> Debian installation), our SATA root drive shows up as /dev/hdg, but under 2.6, it's now a SCSI device, /dev/sda. It took us a while to figure out what was wrong until we finally got a serial line and were able to read the boot message outputs.
This is the error message we got originally _before_ we appended "root=/dev/sda3" to our command-line:
VFS: Cannot open root device "2203" or unknown-block(34,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option
I have a feeling this will take a lot of SATA users by surprise, so hopefully it'll be documented from now on.
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