> - Original Message -
> From: "Bo Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:11:18 +0800
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> Hello everybody :
> I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but
> I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from
> the google and the archive .
> So I came here !
>
> And my problem is that :
> I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk
> . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but
> when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :
> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
> But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3
>
> I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Best Regard !
>
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Although I have never used VMware, I have had the same error message before.
It turned out that I had either forgot to put support for the file system in
the kernel that my partition was formatted in, or that I had mistyped the root=
line. I can also tell you that if you used genkernel to build your kernel (but
it sounds like you didn't) it requires several different kernel parameters to
boot. Hope this helps.
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