Bob Berman wrote: > I installed a new SCSI hard disk in my system and installed > SuSe 7.2 on it. I am trying to use GRUB to boot this system > but it is not working and I can not understand why not. > I have a SCSI disk - id 0 - sda - already in the box that has > Linux on it. I have installed LILO in the MBR and this boots > fine. > My new SCSI disk is id 1 - sdb - and this is the partitioning: > /dev/sdb1 - /boot (ext2fs) > /dev/sdb2 - swap > /dev/sdb3 - / (ext2fs) > /dev/sdb4 - LVM partition (/opt /home /var) > I try to boot it with the > following commands: > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb3 > boot
Looks to me like you should use instead 'root (hd1,2)'. > When I boot Linux, the error I get is: > request_module[block major-8]: root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "sbd3" or 08:13 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:13 > I am absolutely sure that my root partition is /dev/sdb3. /dev/sdb3 is not (hd1,0) > What is going on and how can I get it to work? > I am using grub 0.90, by the way. -- "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." President John Quincy Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub