[plug] cant boot system any longer

[W.Kenworthy]

Coming to the thread late: Ive had two sata boards now that renumber the
sata drives differently depending if you boot from the disk, or a
livecd.  If you look at the grub mapping when running from the livecd,
and set the root to this map, the bios renumbers things when you try and
boot from the sata drive, and of course cant find the kernel etc.

Could this be your problem?

BillK


On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:19 +1000, Rob Dunne wrote:
> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> > 
> > Okay well what kind of scsi (or sata maybe?) controller do you have?
> > What kernel module supports this hardware? 
> 
> Well -- I have just realized that it didnt matter what modules I specified.
> 
> It seems the 2.6 kernel uses a different module loading mechanism. It 
> needs a file called /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> We have now generated this using "generate_modprobe.conf"
> and it appears that all the drivers are loaded in the correct order. 
> However it still says
> 
> "Cannot open root device "sda2" "
> 
> 
> I am doing a bit of a web search at the moment for ideas -- but any you 
> have to spare would be gratefully received.
> 
> Bye
> Rob
> 
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