On Sat, 1 May 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sat 01 May 04, 10:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > VFS - Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) > > Please append correct "Root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > well, this pretty much tells it all. the kernel panics because it > doesn't know where to find the root of your filesystem. > > [...] > > have no idea with grub, but i always through grub automagically finds > the root partition... > > pete
Hi, If you are using grub, here is the relevant line from my menu.lst file: title 2.4.18-1-k7 kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-k7 root=/dev/hda9 hdd=ide-scsi I had to specify the root partition because it's not on the same partition as /boot (hd0,1). HTH, Foo _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
