Kernel Panic w/ SATA HD

macawgumbo · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 165

The kernel panics and says something about not finding root device of /dev/sda3 which is the root partition. It says it can't mount device unknown block device. Is there any special configuration for a SATA drive? I just tarballed the old IDE drive and untarred it onto my new 300GB SATA drive after redoing partitions. (The file copy is fine, that isn't the problem) I edited fstab to mount the new partitions, and then I edited grub.conf. I also installed grub onto the hard drive. (Grub comes up fine, it loads the kernel, then the kernel panics) Am I missing kernel settings? How do I enable that libata driver for SATA as the one in the kernel says deprecated? Thanks much.

DDV01 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:

Just a few questions come to mind:
do you have the right kernel drver ?
Is the old IDE still in there?

macawgumbo · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 165

The old HD is gone. What kernel drivers would I need? I was thinking there was a configuration of the kernel I just missed.

DDV01 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

Have a look under SCSI....in the kernel configuration you have to enable SATA support there.