Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

> 
> So grub loads abd boots the Linux kernel, but the
> kernel can't mount the 
> root FS on /dev/sda6. So /dev/sda6 doesn't exist for
> some reason, which 
> could be one of:
> 1) There is no /dev/sda6 partition

Huh? I just installed gentoo there.

> 2) You haven't compiled in support for your SATA
> controller in the kernel

Yes, I wondered about that. Previously in the config
options there were NV_SATA (this is an nVidia board)
and another for Sil3114(my SATA controller), forget
the exact option. That was for my earlier install when
I was still operating from the IDE HD and using that
to configure the SATA HD. This, present, install is
using the latest gentoo.org offering. These options
are nowhere to be found in make menuconfig, just a
generic-looking SATA_CONFIG(something like that). In
fact, when I boot from the install disk and do a lsmod
all the appropriate modules have been loaded(except
for the audio, which is easy to fix later), even
forcedeth, another option that this mobo requires
which was in the earlier config options but is now
missing. The Panic _does_ occur at about the spot
where the boot console is supposed to be finding the
drive. Why would they put drivers in the iso but not
the sources on the same CD? Weird.

> 
> There are two ways of doing SATA on Linux, one is
> through the IDE layer, 
> which is deprecated and I strongly recommend
> against, the other is using 
> libata through the SCSI layer.
> 
> > So I'm at a loss. The grub commands went alright.
> > Wouldn't I get an error if one of the commands was
> > wrong? Don't know what's meant by "unknown block
> > (0,0)". Is it saying it's trying to mount / on
> > /dev/sda1? Doesn't make sense.
> 
> That means it has no idea what sda6 is, that there
> is no such device.
> 
> HTH,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Boot
> bootc@bootc.net
> http://www.bootc.net/
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> 
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