[plug] SATA boot problem

[Jim Householder]

Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Jim Householder wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>> Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have just bought a 500GB SATA Seagate Barracuda drive, and have built a
>>>> kernel on it with all the SATA options I could find built-in (not modules).
>>>>
>>>> When I boot from the drive it gets as far as trying to mount / and panics.
>>>> A list of partitions available does not show the SATA drive, event though
>>>> the code that aborted was executed from it.
>>> Do you mean "was executed from it" in the sense of "GRUB loaded the initrd and
>>> kernel from it?"
>> yes, but no initrd - just vmlinuz
> 
> Then you need all the components needed to detect and mount the root
> volume to bound into the kernel. This includes some sata drvers and some
> scsi emulation drivers (I don't have an exact list to hand).
> 
Thanks Peter.  SCSI was the problem.