Linux won't detect HD's with my PCI RAID controller enabled.

From: Jack Whitman (kspecial_at_blazemail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 29 Jan 2004 21:03:07 -0800

Hey guys, and good day.

Here is my problem: I recently downloaded and compiled a new kernel so
I would have support for my new PCI ATA-133 RAID controller (Sil680
chip), and be able to access the HD that it controlls. I compiled the
kernel with support, made bzimage and tossed 'er place of the current
/vmlinuz, then I try booting this new kernel I get the error message:

Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=

The problem is, I have tried init=/bin/bash and I KNOW that /sbin/init
is in fact, valid and not corrupt.
So I proceed onto figuring out what else could be the problem.
So I realize that my root HD has changed, I was always booting with
root=/dev/hda1 since my root hd is IDE controller 1, disk 1, partition
1. The problem be that now that I have added support for this ATA PCI
controller, I look and notice that the kernel finds the controller and
it's attatched HD and assigns it as hda, successfully overriding my
default root disk/partition. Now being half intelligent, I try and
pass root as being everything from /dev/hdb to /dev/hdd with no luck
of landing on my hard drive. It seems the kernel is not recognzing my
standard IDE drives now that I have added support for this new PCI ATA
controller, this is in deed my problem. The kernel version is 2.4.24.

--K-sPecial

p.s plz help me boot :)

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