From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: Some IDE issues with 2.6.28 on PC-Engines ALIX2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:53:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20090131122500.f6817013.cjsthompson@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from rcsinet14.oracle.com ([148.87.113.126]:55136 "EHLO rgminet14.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751928AbZAaMyi (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:54:38 -0500 Received: from rgminet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rgminet14.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n0VCvOqP027051 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:57:26 GMT In-Reply-To: <20090131122500.f6817013.cjsthompson@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat\, 31 Jan 2009 12\:25\:00 +0100") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Christoph .J Thompson" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph J Thompson writes: Christoph> I'm having problems booting a kernel with pata_cs5536 on this Christoph> box: Christoph> [ 2.322395] VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=root" Your initrd isn't set up correctly. Probably missing the pata_cs5536 driver (or not there at all). Either generate a suitable initrd or fix lilo to boot with root=/dev/sdaN. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering