Can't mount SATA root partition at boot

Rodney · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Here's my problem: I am currently running Gentoo on a hard drive connected to my IDE1. I added a new SATA drive in on my Promise PDC20376. I want to run my root and boot partitions on the SATA and my /home on my IDE. So I duplicated the /boot and / on my IDE onto my SATA. In order to boot from my SATA, I first have to disable my IDE in the BIOS (bummer but I can live with it). When it does boot, it loads up fine until Gentoo initrd tries to mount the root partition on the SATA- it fails. I've tried booting up from the IDE then mounting the SATA, but it still fails. However, from both /boot partitions I can load the IDE root partition. I have no clue what is going on. Any help is appreciated

I'm running 2.6.4-rc1-mm2

adaptr · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

Since the /boot partition is only accessed once - on bootup, its speed is a non-issue.
I'd forget about installing it on SATA - there's absolutely no reason to.
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Rodney · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Yeah, I agree. However, it doesn't matter, because I can use both /boot partitions, I just can't mount the / partition on the SATA disk. I'm beginning to wonder if I need to pass the kernel some parameters, since the SATA is seen as /dev/sda and is treated as SCSI_SATA in the kernel config. Thanks for the thought adaptr.

Rodney · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Anyone? Sorry, it's just that I'd really like to get this working.