[suse-sles-e] SLES-9 Install on Dell 2850, no root device

From: Ron Joffe (rjoffe_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 16:48:34 CEST


From: Ron Joffe <rjoffe@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:48:34 -0400
Message-Id: <200605041048.34947.rjoffe@yahoo.com>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] SLES-9 Install on Dell 2850, no root device

I have submitted this same issue to Novell support (After figuring out their
very poorly designed service request form).

Perhaps someone on the list has a suggestion as well ?

SLES-9 SP3 32 bit
Server:
 Dell 2850
 Perc 4/Di controller - Single Raid 1 Partition
 Dual Xeon 3.4
 4GB Ram

Install, standard install.
Partitions:
 /dev/sda1 - 100Meg ext2 /boot
 /dev/sda2 - 2GB SWAP
 /dev/sda3 - 5 GB /
Install went just fine, after package load, system reboots. On reboot, console
displays:
Loading kernal/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
waiting for device /dev/sda3 ro appear: ....not found -- device nodes:
long list of device nodes (tty's,pty's, etc)
No root device found: exiting to /bin/sh

I can boot via rescue disk, and easily mount /dev/sda3 to /mnt and /dev/sda1
to /mnt/boot.

I have chrooted in the rescue mode to /mnt and ran yast to apply all latest
patches (including kernel). This did not help the configuration.

I have gone into the bios and changed all disk and boot settings a number of
different formats, this did not help either.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ron

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