What kind of RAID controller is it? My dell poweredge 2400 has a AMI PERC2/DC raid card in it and a vanilla kernel on gentoo sees it as /dev/sda. I'd double check to make sure you have the driver for the controller compiled into the kernel. Adam meierjo wrote: >software RAID? If so did you compile the Kernel with RAID support? > > >if hardware Raid - same question - drivers for the hw compiled into >the kernel???? > > >my raid devices are /dev/md0, md1 ..... > >i'll keep thinking and post more .... > > >On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:08:29 -0500, Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > > >>Hey everyone, >> >>I've got a Dell 1750 server running Debian that we use here at school. It's >>a dual-Xeon box with RAID. >> >>I decided to give a 2.6 kernel a try on this server so I built the kernel >>and configured lilo.conf to boot the new kernel. Actually, I used Debian's >>make-kpkg tool to do most of the heavy lifting. Having learned my lesson >>many years ago when I built my first custom kernel, I made sure that the old >>working kernel was still an option in my LILO config. >> >>Unfortunately, neither kernel boots now. I'm getting: >> >>VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 08:01 >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option >>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 >> >>I'd put a different "root=" boot option in there, but I'm not sure which >>partition holds the root. My install notes are nowhere to be found, and I'm >>not even sure that this machine uses the standard /dev/sdax naming given >>that's it's using a RAID controller. >> >>Anyone have a suggestion? I'm at a loss right now. >> >>-Tim >> >>-- >>Tim Wilson >>Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA >>Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy >>mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 public key: 0x8C0F8813 >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list