On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:01:55PM -0500, mrmoo1231@netscape.net wrote:
> request_module[ide-disk]: Root fs not mounted
> hdb: driver not present
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb3" or 03:43
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 (is this...
^^^^^
That's a device number in hex, identifying hdb3. Documentation/devices.txt
in the kernel source tree tells you everything. That file is as precious
as ESR's guide to asking smart questions.
> These two next pieces of info. may be relevant as well:
> * I remember the last lines from the std. output of the last make
> bzImage before the panic in question said something about the image
> being created at I think 3,67 -- or some 3,XX that WASN'T the
> 43 referenced above.
It was. 0x43 (hex) == 67 (decimal)
> * when I booted into the official Deb. (again, on /dev/hdb3) with a
> "rescue root=/dev/hdb3" and ran fdisk to check the partitioning, fdisk says
> that /dev/hdb3 overlaps /dev/hdb1 (don't ask where /dev/hdb2 went, I haven't
> the foggiest).
Sounds hosed, casters-up mode.
Good luck,
Nick
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