Artemio wrote:
> I've just installed RH 7.3 on a machine with all-SCSI
> discs. I had to load "linux dd" with Adaptec AIC 79xx
> driver floppy installed, but that's ok.
> The / is mounted from /dev/sdb1.
>
> So, I got a clean 2.4.20 kernel, added AIC 79xx driver
> sources to the kernel source tree, configured and
> compiled and installed it (of course, I didn't
> forget about the modules).
>
> In lilo, I said "root=/dev/sdb1" just as for the original
> 2.4.18-3 RedHatkernel which boots ok.
>
> When I boot the new kernel, I get:
> VFS: Cannot open root device at "811" or "08:11"
>
> From SCSI-howto I got that 08:11 stands for /dev/sda11.
> Why would /dev/sdb1 be converted to 08:11 instead of 08:17
> (again, corresponding to SCSI-howto)?
Those number are in hex, so "811" is major 8, minor 17 which
is (or should be) /dev/sdb1. Look earlier in the boot up
sequence, where the aic79xx driver is loaded and scans
for devices. It should say that it has attached /dev/sdb .
You may need a later version of that driver. Visit:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux
Doug Gilbert
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