Re: How to determine the information about SATA controller

[Mikael Pettersson]

Jaswinder Singh Rajput writes:
 > >  > No root device found.
 > >  > Boot has failed, sleeping forever
 > >  >
 > >  > I am trying to determine the information about the SATA controller so
 > >  > that I can choose the appropriate controller for SATA in kernel
 > >  > config. I am not able to figure out the SATA information from above
 > >  > dmesg and lsmod. How can I do so.
 > >
 > > In your working dmesg the disks are controlled by ata_piix,
 > > but you've disabled CONFIG_ATA_PIIX in the config you're trying.
 > > So it's not surprising that you can't boot.
 > >
 > > 1) re-enable CONFIG_ATA_PIIX and disable CONFIG_IDE
 > 
 > I have enabled CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
 > and disabled CONFIG_IDE
 > 
 > but still getting same error :
 > 
 > No root device found.
 > Boot has failed, sleeping forever
 > 
 > Am I missing some more options.
 > 
 > > or
 > > 2) go into the bios and change the option that says whether to run
 > >   the ATA controller in legacy/compatible mode or enhanced/ahci mode,
 > >   you want ahci mode
 > >
 > 
 > In my case, BIOS options are enhanced / legacy / disabled. I tried all
 > but of no use. So I am using enhanced to boot Fedora 13 kernel.

We need to see the complete kernel messages from a failed boot to
determine the root cause of that missing root device failure.

I suggest hooking up a null-modem serial cable to a second machine
and run minicom on that one to capture boot messages, but there may
be other ways to capture boot messages: netconsole? firewire?
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