Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"
--- Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net> wrote:
> 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...
I have needed this on 2.4.18-686 and 2.4.18-686-smp .
I also needed it on whatever the first 2.4.x (2.4.16?)
kernel, and any in between that one and 2.4.18, was to
be included with woody when it was still testing and
not stable.
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