Hello folks. I've successfully made my grub boot disk but booting my system fails at the following point:
request_module [block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or 08:05 Please append a correct "root=" boot option I'm running a Red Hat 7.1 system with 2 SCSI HDDs. My lilo. conf is as follows: boot=/dev/sda5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message default=linux lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img read-only root=/dev/sda5 other=/dev/sda9 label=dos The pertinent parts of dmesg are: Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > sda4 (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. SCSI device sdb: 35861388 512-byte hdwr sectors (18361 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 SCSI device sdc: 489532 512-byte hdwr sectors (251 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: unknown partition table (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. SCSI device sdd: 3915600 512-byte hdwr sectors (2005 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: sdd4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 125944k swap-space (priority -2) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 20:53:29 Apr 8 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 10 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=52 devrev=f4 oldid=ff Winbond chip type 83977EF / SMSC 97w35x Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07 Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3 Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0 Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7 SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: PWord is 8 bits 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) ip_conntrack (3072 buckets, 24576 max) 3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27 Jan 2001 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:01:02:07:0d:76, IRQ 11 product code 4347 rev 00.12 date 01-27-00 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. eth0: scatter/gather disabled. h/w checksums enabled eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8 eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8 Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=52 devrev=f4 oldid=ff Winbond chip type 83977EF / SMSC 97w35x Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07 Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3 Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0 Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7 SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: PWord is 8 bits 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) lp0: using parport0 (polling). Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 322M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe0000000 64MB [drm] Initialized mga 2.0.1 20000928 on minor 63 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 16. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 parport0: Timed out parport0: Timed out parport0: Timed out Uniform CD-ROM driver unloaded [user@bobhost user]$ What kind of "root=' option do I need to define? TIA Bob Harvey _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub