From: Eric Wong <eric@yhbt.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: notes on 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade with a Serial ATA root
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:54:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119225425.GF24852@BL4ST> (raw)
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.
--
Eric Wong eric@yhbt.net
Petta Technologies eric@petta-tech.com
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2003-11-19 22:54 Eric Wong [this message]
2003-11-19 23:07 ` notes on 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade with a Serial ATA root Erik Steffl
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