Hardware :: New SATA Drive Doesn't Allow Boot

Oct 1, 2010

I recently installed a PCI Sata card along with a SATA HDD and a SATA DVD burner. My PC ogirinally used /dev/sda1 to boot into root. But now when I plug the new HDD in, it names the SATA drive /dev/sda and the SCSI drive /dev/sdb.

I have unplugged the SATA drive and am able to boot into linux. I can also use the DVD burner. In the lilo.conf file, I have rename the root to /dev/sdb1 so when I plug the SATA drive in and reboot, it should go to sdb1 for root. But here is the error that Im getting.

VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or unknown-block(8,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available paritions
0800 488386584 sda driver: sd
0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr

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