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

Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On 8/24/07, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote:
> > >

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> > Is the disk really a PATA or is it SATA? 2.4 kernels will see them as
> > /dev/hd* whereas 2.6 kernels will see them as /dev/sd*
>
> 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.

The menu.lst looks ok, if you are not using an initrd image. I have both methods in my menu.lst.

title       Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18y Default--------------  SID - HDA2
root        (hd0,1)
kernel      /boot/bzImage-2.6.18y root=LABEL=SID vga=792 ro

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 --------------- ETCH - HDB1 lock

root        (hd1,0)
kernel      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-k7 root=/dev/hdb1 vga=792 ro
initrd      /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-k7

I found something yesterday while working on another box that _might_ help.

In the title line had Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 but got an error similar to what you are seeing. When I checked /boot I had a bzImage-2.6.18y but not a bzImage-2.6.18. I corrected the title line in menu.lst and it then worked, of course.

Wayne

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