Re: 2.5.49: "hdb: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads"

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 20:03, Eric Buddington wrote:
> Thanks. Disks and partitions are now recognized, but root still won't
> mount. Reiserfs (the root fs) is compiled in, along with IDE disk
> support.  I tried getting rid of the advanced partitopn types options,
> which eliminated the MS-DOS partition table message, but did not
> otherwise change things.
> 
> The hdc error is also unexpected, unless it's simply the result of no
> CD in the drive.
> 
> I hope this isn't another silly thing I'm missing.

I'd start by turning off devfs