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Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"



On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 07:44, Charles Baker wrote:
> 
> --- Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net> wrote:
> > > I am having trouble setting up Debian woody on a
> > IOpener.  I am
> > > setting up the IDE drive on another machine, and
> > then hooking it up to
> > > the IOpener and attempting to boot.  When I
> > attempt to boot with the
> > > drive in the IOpener, I get:
> > >  VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01
> > >  Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > >  Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > 03:01
> > 
> > The IOpener may not be seeing the disk as hda (aka
> > 03:01).  Please post
> > the messages before that as it may tell you what the
> > kernel thinks the
> > disk is called, or if it doesn't see it at all.
> 
> {{SNIP}}
> 
> I had the same problem when I first moved to a 2.4.x
> kernel on a plain intel based machine. The problem wa
> slack of initrd line in lilo.conf . For example,
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
>         initrd=/initrd.img
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
> #       restricted
> #       alias=1

AFAIK this is only required by 2.4.19, and I am running 2.4.18.
But of course, I could be wrong...

-- 
Tom Schutter
t.schutter@att.net



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