Jay Graves wrote:
After apt-get'ing many packages I downloaded the 2.4.21 kernel and rsynced to benh2. compiled and installed. Now when I reboot into open firmware... boot hd:9,yaboot #to get to yaboot boot: hd:11,/vmlinux root=/dev/hdc11 ro #to boot my new 2.4.21-benh2 kernel I get kernel panic with the following message VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc11" or 16:0b Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:0b
I had exactly the same experience, but with a blue and white G3.As a test, I downloaded the precompiled kernel, linux-benh-devel-2.4.21-ben2, from www.ppckernel.org . The precompiled kernel, which was the same version but presumably with different modules, would boot and run fine. Several days earlier I compiled the 2.4.21-benh2 on an older PowerMac 7300/200, which boots with BootX, and it would boot without problems.
I went back to the default woody kernel, 2.4.18-newpmac, for the G3. I don't know the solution, but I'd sure like to. Brad