Re: Unidentified subject!
Hello
JAMES MERRITT (<jamesem@email.com>) wrote:
> I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody. The other day when
> I tried to boot into Woody, it started the normal text bootup screen
> before it goes into to KDE graphical login screen. But, during the
> text portion of the boot up process, it stopped and gave this message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "346" or 03:47.
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:46.
>
> What does all of this mean, what is going on and what can I do to
> correct this? I am lost at this point.
>
> Thank you all for any help you can give me.
Did you change your Kernel or bootloader configuration? The number for
the root device seems to be a bit strange. If I am not mistaken, 346
means device with major 3, minor 46. Block devices with major 3 are hda
and hdb, so it should be hda46, which means you have more than 40
partitions on your first disk. Is that true? Check what partition your
root file system is on. Take a look at your boot loader configuration,
for example the root=-line if you use lilo. If it is pointing to the
wrong partition, correct it and rerun lilo. If you know what your root
file system is, tell the Kernel so when lilo starts (for example, I
would start "Linux root=/dev/hda7").
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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