Re: My kernel can't access my hdd, but the LiveCD can.

From: David B. Ferguson (david.mcs_at_ns.sympatico.ca)
Date: 07/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:07:45 GMT

Did you add support for your raid controller in your kernel?
What file system are you using and did you add support for it in your kernel as well?

try root=/dev/hde5 

-- 
David-
"Sebastian Noack" <sebastian@der-noack.de> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.07.26.23.55.34.140623@der-noack.de...
> Hi,
>
> if I boot from the Gennto-LiveCD and pass the options nolvm2 and noevms to
> the kernel, can I mount my hdd wich is pluged on my raid controller (wich
> still works without RAID-functionality). After I have mount partitions of
> this hdd, I have installed Gentoo-Linux and the boot-loader grub on it.
> But when I now try to boot from this hdd, I get following error message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hde5" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>
> But hde5 is the devicefile wich I had to mount for the root partition
> after I had booted from the LiveCD and I don't know wich devicefile else I
> should pass with the "root="-option to the kernel.
>
> Best Regards
> Seebastian Noack

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