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Re: Problem booting with Kernel 2.4.0-test12




On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noam Meltzer wrote:

> I encountered a very strange problem after I installed Kernel
> 2.4.0-test12.
> After doing the normal routine for building a kernel (make menuconfig,
> make dep, make bzImage, adding it to 'lilo.conf 'and doing 'lilo')
> Ok, I reboot, start the new message and then i get this message (I quote
> the last 3 lines of all the log showed on the screen, like in any normal
> boot procedure):
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device "1607" or 16:07
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:07

Is your root at /dev/hdc7? If not, do you have the root parameter set
correctly in lilo.conf (as the message suggests?)?
Is the hdc recognized correctly at boot time (a line similar to
hdc: IBM-DPTA-372730, ATA DISK drive )?



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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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