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ybotspawn

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

[Solved]Adding a hard drive problem?!?

OK folks, I feel stupid asking this question but each time I try to add a hard drive to my arch server, I get the following error at boot up any advice:

attempting to create root device /dev/sda3
/bin/mknod "/dev/root" b 8 3
/init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No Such Device or address

:: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit: Unable to mount root fs on device dev(8,3)
kinit: init not found!
kernel panic - not synching: Attempted to kill init!

The device I'm adding is a 200gb hard drive PATA drive, the current system is on a SATA drive.  There are no other drives on the PATA chain.  Any advice?  I'm thinking maybe grub is calling it?!?!

Last edited by ybotspawn (2008-07-15 23:16:34)

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: [Solved]Adding a hard drive problem?!?

OK folks, I feel stupid asking this question but each time I try to add a hard drive to my arch server, I get the following error at boot up any advice:

attempting to create root device /dev/sda3
/bin/mknod "/dev/root" b 8 3
/init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No Such Device or address

:: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
IP-Config: no devices to configure
kinit: Unable to mount root fs on device dev(8,3)
kinit: init not found!
kernel panic - not synching: Attempted to kill init!

The device I'm adding is a 200gb hard drive PATA drive, the current system is on a SATA drive.  There are no other drives on the PATA chain.  Any advice?  I'm thinking maybe grub is calling it?!?!

Try labeling your partitions from a live cd, and use /dev/disk/by-label or some other form of persistent device naming. Sounds like typical linux kernel drive controller issues.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

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ybotspawn

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

Re: [Solved]Adding a hard drive problem?!?

THanks for the reply!  Ok, so I was able to configure the permanent names with no problems, the system is booted, cfdisk sees the new drive, but for some reason I can't mount it.  It says that the device is not in mtab or fstab?  Again thanks!!!

Matt

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ybotspawn

Member

From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

Re: [Solved]Adding a hard drive problem?!?

Duh 200gb hdd not seen by mobo properly... need ata adapter... thanks all!

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