[ale] SATA experience

[Robert L. Harris]

That sounds like you don't have the dev entries:

{0}:/home/nomad>ls -la /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/sda

{0}:/home/nomad>ls -la /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 14  2002 /dev/sda1

{0}:/home/nomad>ls -la /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14  2002 /dev/sda2

{0}:/home/nomad>ls -la /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 14  2002 /dev/sda3

8,0.  8,1.  8,2.  8,3.....





Thus spake Philip Polstra (ppolstra at gmail.com):

>    I'm getting something like "bad block number 803 or (0,0,3) or cannot load
>    root partition".  I understand I need to compile in support for SATA to
>    mount a root partition, but I must be missing something simple in my
>    kernel config, since it doesn't seem to read it.
> 
>    On 2/6/06, Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
>      On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:30:07PM -0500, Philip Polstra wrote:
>      > The device is /dev/sda.  The boot partition is /dev/sda1, swap is
>      /dev/sda2,
>      > and root is /dev/sda3.  /dev/hda is my DVD drive.  It seems to not
>      want to
>      > mount the root partition.
> 
>      I'm using gentoo with SATA, so it can be done.  I assume you're using
>      grub; what errors are you getting?
> 
>      Here is what my grub.conf looks like:
> 
>      ---
>      default 0
>      timeout 30
>      splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
>      title=Linux
>      root (hd0,0)
>      kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5
>      ---
> 
>      and /etc/fstab (trimmed):
> 
>      ---
>      /dev/sda1  /boot  ext2  noauto,noatime  1 2
>      /dev/sda5  /      ext3  noatime         0 1
>      ---
> 
>      HTH,
>      Jason
>      --
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