[Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box or SuseorAnything :(

[Giorgio Calarco]

mmm, did you remove the

append="root=LABEL=/"

(which works only with the RedHat kernel... )
and put :

root=/dev/sdb3

inside of your lilo.conf to indicate where the root fs is?


ciao
giorgio


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beyers Cronje" <bcronje at cs.co.za>
To: "Eddie Kohler" <kohler at cs.ucla.edu>; "Davila, Pedro Manuel"
<pedro at miami.edu>
Cc: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box or
SuseorAnything :(


> Also you can try and change the "root=" tag in grub.conf || lilo.conf to
> the full path "root=/dev/hdb3" or wherever your root fs resides. On my
> Redhat 9 box I also got the "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root"
> error after a new vanilla kernel was added, the above settings sorted it
> out for me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> [mailto:click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu]On Behalf Of Eddie Kohler
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:54 PM
> To: Davila, Pedro Manuel
> Cc: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Click] FOLLOW UP: no Click on Redhat_9 or White Box or
> Suseor Anything :(
>
>
> Davila, Pedro Manuel wrote:
> > I forgot to mention the error I get when i try to boot the newly
> compiled kernel.
> >
> >     VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb3" on 08:13
> >     Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >     Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root from 08:13
>
> Pedro,
>
> It looks like you are not using the proper configuration options in the
> "make
> menuconfig" step.  Probably you have not turned on the configuration
> option that
> supports your hard disk (sdb3).
>
> Eddie
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