From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262525AbTJGQy1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262529AbTJGQy1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:27 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:14829 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262525AbTJGQyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:54:24 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: linuxcompilerdd Subject: Re: hello, i need some help Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:57:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1065544070.4385.6.camel@skynet.gml> In-Reply-To: <1065544070.4385.6.camel@skynet.gml> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310071857.33164.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.5.xx is quite old, use 2.6.0-testX (2.6.0-test6 is the latest/greatest). On Tuesday 07 of October 2003 18:36, linuxcompilerdd wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem booting the kernel. > Now i am using kernel 2.4.20 and it is working nice but when I try to boot > 2.5.xx I obtain this error: > VFS:cannot open root device "hdb5" or hdb5 > > After working on it, now I am sure that the problem is on the hard disk > because I have an AWARD 4.51 and my hdb is an 60Gb disk so I use the STROKE > from SEAGATE to use it. > I don`t have any problem on 2.x.xx but I cannot boot on it now. > I have booted the same kernel that displayed the error in other system and > it booted perfectly, so the problem resides on the hdb. > > I wish you could help me resolving it, maybe a patch for the drive... > > I hope your answer. > Thank u > > Guille