Hi Adam:
Here's a more generic test. can you try
for i in a b c d ; do
echo "Trying hd$i";
dd if=/dev/hd$i count=1 of=/dev/null;
done
Not sure offhand if the ITE 8172 has multiple IDE channels/headers; your
HDD may also have an unreadable partition table.
Good luck
-Jeff
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 10:17, Adam Kiepul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone please tell me whether the 2.4.24 source actually supports the IDE HDD in the default configuration for the ITE 8172?
> I have built the kernel and it boots up fine with the NFS root. However, it is unable to mount the root file system on a HDD. When I try to mount the /dev/hda1 while running with NFS root I get the "/dev/hda1 is not a valid block device" message. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
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