Re: boot failure

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya dan

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Dan Davison wrote:

> VFS: Cannot open root device "305" or unknown-block(3,5)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,5)

it means your boot config ( grub or lilo ) is configured to look
for /dev/hda5  for your root files ( / )

if it's not there .. you need too use root=/dev/someplace-else

and redo lilo/grub once yo got it going again

or your kernel does support ide ??? ( nah, not likely )

c ya
alvin