SATA + GRUB, Kernel Panic

KnappZ · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 15 Location: here

I currently run a 120gb Maxtor Serial-ATA Harddrive on a Promise FastTrack 376 SATA controller. It runs on an nVidia nForceII Ultra 400 chipset. Today I went to install Gentoo, popped in my 2004.1 disc, and followed the handbook, using the gentoo-dev-sources. I chose GRUB as my bootloader, installed/configured it, and restarted my machine. When trying to boot Linux, I get the "cannot open root device" error.

Here is my partitioning setup:
/dev/sda1 = Windows XP (NTFS)
/dev/sda2 = boot (Ext3)
/dev/sda3 = root (reiserfs)
/dev/sda4 = swap (swap)

...And my relevant GRUB config info:
title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda3

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:03 am Post subject:

Do you have the correct options compiled-in (not modules) to access your root device ?

danone · Guru Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

MAke sure your kernel has the appropriate driver for your SATA controller compiled in..sound like it isn't...can you send me your kernel con but mainly look at SCSI Drivers-> SCSI LOW Level Drivers under SATA drivers..maybe this fix your problem
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KnappZ · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 15 Location: here

You were right, I forgot to install the SATA support. Since I did a bit of a sloppy install anyways, I figured it couldn't hurt to reinstall from scratch, it only took a little.

But now when I boot it asks me to include devfs support in my kernel config! I know I truly reveal my existance as a linux n00b when I say this, but, I'm having problems getting my bzImage to go where I want it to. When I copy my bzImage to /boot (this is from a working gentoo system), I look in /boot and see nothing but the files I copied, my old kernel files and the grub directory are missing. Where are those files at? Any advice?

genstef · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:57 am Post subject:

looks like you forgot to mount /boot