[TriLUG] Naming conventions for hard drives

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:25, nroskam at rr.nc.com wrote:
> I am trying to get my hard drive working under a promise 20376 ide raid
> controller.  At the moment I am not even trying to do raid.  I have
> installed the driver from promise.  My problem seems to be grub.  I keep
> getting a message that the root file system cannot be loaded.  I have
> tried several different naming conventions.
> 
> Root=/dev/sda (sda0,1,hda,hda0,hda1,md,md0,md1,d0)
> 
> Is there another naming convention I should try?  The md gave superblock
> errors and bad bread.

It sounds like your kernel doesn't have the correct driver for
the disk compiled in and you either aren't using an initrd
to load the module or the module is not in your initrd file.
Did you create a new initrd when you installed this?

BTW, you should *not* have to use lilo.  This should work fine
in grub.

Tanner
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