Hello, On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jaswinder Singh Rajput writes: > > Hello, > > > > My old IDE hard disk is broken so I installed new SATA drive on my box with F13: > > > > dmesg : > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/P4_HT/dmesg_2633_fc13.txt > > > > lsmod: > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/P4_HT/lsmod_2633_fc13.txt > > > > lspci: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM > > Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated > > Graphics Controller (rev 02) > > 00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to > > I/O Memory Interface (rev 02) > > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) > > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC > > Interface Bridge (rev 02) > > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE > > Controller (rev 02) > > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) > > > > I am trying to build the kernel with this config: > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/P4_HT/config-ht-test.txt > > > > But I am getting error : > > > > No root device found. > > Boot has failed, sleeping forever > > > > I am trying to determine the information about the SATA controller so > > that I can choose the appropriate controller for SATA in kernel > > config. I am not able to figure out the SATA information from above > > dmesg and lsmod. How can I do so. > > In your working dmesg the disks are controlled by ata_piix, > but you've disabled CONFIG_ATA_PIIX in the config you're trying. > So it's not surprising that you can't boot. > > 1) re-enable CONFIG_ATA_PIIX and disable CONFIG_IDE I have enabled CONFIG_ATA_PIIX and disabled CONFIG_IDE but still getting same error : No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever Am I missing some more options. > or > 2) go into the bios and change the option that says whether to run > the ATA controller in legacy/compatible mode or enhanced/ahci mode, > you want ahci mode > In my case, BIOS options are enhanced / legacy / disabled. I tried all but of no use. So I am using enhanced to boot Fedora 13 kernel. Thanks, -- Jawinder Singh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html