Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@xxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
On 8/24/07, Wayne Topa <linuxone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@xxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
[snip]
It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and
an 80GB Western Digital drive, for sur not SATA, I bought this
computer in december 2000. The motherboard is an ABIT KT7 (no RAID,
VIA chipsets). Right now I am not using the kernel's VIA chipset
driver because it causes me some troubles (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00252.html and the rest
of the thread).

I am using the same MB with less Mem but 160G HD to write this. I
would like to see the contents of the /boot dir.

Here it is (ls -lR /boot/):

total 3676
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508410 Aug 5 22:45 System.map-2.4.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 521488 Aug 5 23:31 System.map-2.6.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0304
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 3 2005 boot.b -> boot-text.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308326 Apr 9 15:38 coffee.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25341 Aug 5 22:33 config-2.4.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34755 Aug 5 23:14 config-2.6.18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 3 2005 debian.bmp -> /boot/sid.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153720 Apr 9 15:38 debianlilo.bmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 23:21 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 33792 Feb 16 2007 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23662 Apr 9 15:38 sarge.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24116 Apr 9 15:38 sid.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 873763 Aug 5 22:45 vmlinuz-2.4.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188132 Aug 5 23:31 vmlinuz-2.6.18

/boot/grub:
total 196
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Feb 16 2007 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Feb 16 2007 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7584 Feb 16 2007 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7424 Feb 16 2007 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Feb 16 2007 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4278 Aug 6 23:21 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4278 Aug 6 23:21 menu.lst~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6848 Feb 16 2007 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9280 Feb 16 2007 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 16 2007 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108360 Feb 16 2007 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8904 Feb 16 2007 xfs_stage1_5

The menu.lst looks ok, if you are not using an initrd image.

I am not using such an image.

I don't see anything obivous. I take it you compiled your own kernel.
Did you use make-kpkg or the older make dep, etc? If you used kpkg
then I would suggest you enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y and try it
again. I used to compile the old way but find that kernel-package
is the better method, now.

If you have already done that, all I can suggest is that you try
installing a debian 2.6.18 image. I don't recall what your running
but I think etch is at 2.6.18-4 now. Testing just upgraded to
2.6.21-2.

Sorry for the late reply. I had a wedding to atten today and just got
back.

Wayne

--
Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write
in anything less portable than a number two pencil.
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