Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted

jurriaan wrote:

I'm experimenting with turning off the PATA drivers and use SATA only,
since all my devices are now found by the SATA drivers in
2.6.19-rc5-mm1.

There is one area in which the kernel could, I think, do better. When
booting, there's no way for me to know where /dev/hda is going to end
up.

You might try using a distribution with an initramfs that performs proper hardware detection, and can mount the root volume by ID rather than device path.

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