Re: New motherboard, unable to reboot SuSE 10

In message <4E0ED8105F%news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> , Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I demand that Andrew Hardy may or may not have written...

My old PIII motherboard died during a BIOS update so I replaced it with a
shiny new Athlon-based one.

Unfortunately, although I get to the Grub loader screen I soon see a
message indicating that it is "waiting for device /dev/hda1 to appear".
Nothing does appear and then I'm left at the shell prompt.
[snip]

Insufficient information. What controller? Does it support SATA? Does your
kernel have SATA support? Some of the dmesg output may also be of use...


The board is an ECS 755-A2, looks like the IDE controller is a SIS 964 chipset. The drive is an 80Gb IDE. The machine doesn't boot so there's no dmesg other than the above "waiting for device /dev/hda1 to appear" which seems to follow the "Loading reiserfs" message.
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