Re: IDE Problems with 2.5.39

[JF]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 23:50, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't boot with 2.5.39 because the built-in  ide driver (ServerWorks 
> CSB5) can't see hda, and VFS says "Cannot open root device "hda3" or 
> 03:03" which results in a kernel panic
> 
> Works fine with 2.4.20-pre? with identical kernel setup and kernel 
> parameter root=/dev/hda3
> 
> Is this a known problem? Any way around it or patches?

I used to have this problem with 2.5 too
It went from the IDE controller chipset.

Are you sure that you have only 1 IDE controller chipset ?

I have both PIIX4 and HPT366. Root FS is on HPT366 controller. Enabling
only PIIX4 used to work with 2.4 but doesn't with 2.5 anymore (got
exactly your problem). I had to enable specific support for both.

I suppose your root FS is on a specific IDE controller for which the
support is not enabled (check the different type in the IDE/ATA kernel
config section)

Regards.