I wish I knew what I did, but I was getting the same thing, only mine was a reiserfs, two old kernels could mount root ok but the new 2.6.1-r1 could not. After the third re-compile it was working, can't remember what it was I changed, I had changed a few other things as well. I would re-check the kernel configs . It may have been scsi related as 2.6 and scsi-emulation are not playing well together.
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 19:53, Kurt Guenther wrote: > I keep getting this error at boot: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda7" or hda7 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda7 > > Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has: > > title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1) > root (hd0,4) > kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7 > > and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has > > /dev/hda7 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > > Not sure what's up. hda7 is definitely my Gentoo root. > > --Kurt > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
