>
> When booting kernel 2.1.8, I get the following sequence of messages:
>
> ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f
> WDC AC21000H, ATA DISK drive
> [some stuff I didn't write down about my CDROM]
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> Partition check:
> hda: driver not present
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> 2.1.7 boots fine. One difference I have noticed is that
> kernel 2.1.7 displays:
>
> WDC AC21000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=525/64/63, DMA
> rather than:
> WDC AC21000H, ATA DISK drive
>
> I suspect this problem is caused by the new ide-disk code.
> Has anyone seen/fixed this problem?
>
I get this exact same error on boot with 2.1.8. Triton II chipset.