Re: Unable to mount root

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> haven not broken through this "wall" for eighteen hours now.  nothing
> I can think of makes any difference
>
> I'm using BootX to open install hd-media on a "Wallstreet" Powerbook.
>
>
> Continually, during boot, it stops at:
>
>   "cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)"
>
> Someone know what I need to do in BootX, or placement of hd-media files?

Supply a ramdisk image, or point it to a valid hd partition to boot from.
Right now it looks like it's using sda1.

	Michael