Roy Souther wrote:
> If you include these numbers that you replaced with X's then the
> answer becomes clearer.
> The numbers tell what module for the device is missing.
>
> Aren't all new Dell's coming with SATA drives now? If so then your
> numbers would be some thing like
> unknown-block(8,1) or unknown-block(8,5)
>
> You can boot a kernel with Reiserfs and (S)ATA modules but you need to
> use an initrd to start the system, it will need to contain a copy of
> the modules, insmod and a script to load them. There are programs that
> build initrd's automatically but I find they do a crappy job of it and
> I like to build my initrd files manually.
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:49 -0600, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "xxx" or unknown-block(x,x)
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Royce,This is exactly what I did; but then I get the following
error:unable to mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt. no such file or directory...
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