Re: 2.6.28 - cannot find root fs on Acer TM 291 (ICH4-M)

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Wed Dec 31 2008 - 07:08:27 EST


Jan De Luyck writes:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been a happy user on my desktop system of 2.6.28 since it's been released,
> but I seem to have hit a snag on my laptop. Can't get it to boot, keeps
> panicking with a VFS: cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
>
> I've tried several configurations, starting off the last kernel built for the
> machine (2.6.25.16). I've selected the PIIX IDE driver (no SATA here), tried
> with and without the advanced partition schemes, but I can't get it to boot.
...
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.28
> # Wed Dec 31 11:46:21 2008
...
> CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y
> CONFIG_IDE=y
>
> #
> # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
> #
> CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
> # CONFIG_IDE_GD is not set

You need to enable IDE_GD and IDE_GD_ATA.

But I recommend that you switch to libata instead (with ata_piix driver).
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