> ----- 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 > > > 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 ! > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 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. -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
