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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:31:46 +0200
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs
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From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
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On Die, 12 Aug 2003, Herbert P?tzl wrote:
> my assumption would be that you use the lilo root option
> and do not pass the root= as kenel boot option ...
> 
> I would suggest to give append="root=/dev/hdb1" a try,
> and/or update lilo or change to grub ...

I tried *all* the variants with passing
	root=....
on the lilo line, so it is passed to the kernel and not via rdev or
something else.

> > > (as well as the lines regarding hdb discovery ;)
> > 
> > Why? Isnt't this line what you meant: (From my previous email)
> 
> because IC35L040AVER07-0 .... is very unlikely to be a kernel message ...

The hard disk is an IC35L...:
(running 2.4.22-rc2):

[~] cat /proc/ide/hdb/model 
IC35L040AVER07-0

> > > > hdb: max request size 128 KiB
> > > > hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
> > > >         hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12>


So it *IS* recognized. But why not mounted.

Best wishes

Norbert

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