kernel accessing pata cd rom drive instead of sata OS hard drive for filesystem
We notice that for some reason, when booting up our computer with the Red Hat operating system located on a removable Sata drive,
we get a kernel panic message because the
system is trying to access the CD ROM drive (PATA master) instead of the OS (SATA Master) drive for
The /dev/root directory. The kernel starts to load before displaying the
following message:
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
Mount : could not find filesystem ‘/dev/root’
Setting up other filesystems
Setting up new root fs
Setuproot : moving /dev failed : no such file or directory
No fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Setuproot : error mounting /proc : no such file or directory
Setuproot : error mounting /sys : no such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init
Unmounting old /dev
Unmounting old /proc
Unmounting old /sys
Switchroot : mount failed : no such file or directory
Kernel panic – not syncing : attempted to kill init![/B]
The only way to get the system to boot is by disabling the
PATA interface in the BIOS. I tried hard coding the SATA OS
drive (root = /dev/sda2) in the GRUB file but that didn't have nay affect.
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