[Voyage-linux] Booting from CF card

[Chris]

Hard disk is a CF card and I am using voyage-lenny.
Sorry, what do you mean by?
Please post "dmesg" and "cat /proc/partitions".

Thanks again!

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> No idea, but is it a sata harddisk?  I might be unsupported on 
> voyage.  Please post "dmesg" and "cat /proc/partitions".  BTW what 
> voyage version you are using?
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the help, but still no luck. Volume is called ROOT_FS and 
>> I tried changing kernel parameter to "root=/dev/hda" and 
>> "root=/dev/hda1" no luck.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> Punky Tse wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Check to see if your root fs has ROOT_FS volume label.  If not, 
>>> label the fs with ROOT_FS.  Or change grub to use "root=/dev/hda" 
>>> for kernel parameter.
>>>
>>> Punky
>>>
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am booting for a PC with a CF card Hard drive. I completed 
>>>> installation on my Ubuntu standard PC and it worked fine.
>>>> When it's booting and it comes to:
>>>> Begin:  Waiting for root file system ...
>>>>
>>>> It pauses for about 5 minutes and then says:
>>>> Give up waiting for root device (and displays some common problem 
>>>> solutions)
>>>> Then it drops to:
>>>> (initramfs)
>>>>
>>>> My Grub settings look like this:
>>>>
>>>> timeout 5
>>>> default 0
>>>>
>>>> title voyage-linux-19Nov08
>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>> kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT_FS
>>>> initrd /initrd.img
>>>>
>>>> Is this right?
>>>> I haven't changed anything from standard installation.
>>>> I have searched forums, and there is probably something very simple 
>>>> to fix this, but I can't find anything as yet.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help in advance!
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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