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Re: System won't boot



On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the
> following and then stops with a kernel panic.  Is this repairable, and if
> so how.  I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible.  Any help
> is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> These are the last 4 lines when booting:
> 
> kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-33 errno=2
> VFS : cannot open root device "2105" or 21:05

Check your kernel config to see is low level support for your disk is
compiled in and also root filesystem support. If they are modules, you
need to use initrd to boot.

> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 21:05
> 
> -Trey

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Jerome

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