Re: Dell Latitude C610

[Sharninder Khera <sharninder.khera@veritas.com>]

> I have a Dell Latitude C610 which I just installed sarge on, The problem
> is that Every time I try to boot my own kernels I get the error "Please
> append root option=..." Checking during the boot process it seems that
> the hard disks are not detected, so i presume that the IDE controller is
> not compiled in
> 

This probably just means that the bootloader does'nt know which is the
root partition. In lilo just add root=/dev/hdX (X is the boot partition
number) to the block containing the new kernel stuff.

HTH
--
sharninder