-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Roman Laubinger wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Fred J. wrote:VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0) please append a correct "root=" boot optionHm. I had this with a kernel > 2.6.16 under gentoo (before I switched over). The solution was to compile GENERIC_IDE_SUPPORT into the kernel. You'll find it under ATA-Devices in the device drivers section.
Depending on your hardware, that can work. An alternative since you're using the old config file is to recreate an appropriate initial ramdisk which bootstraps needed kernel modules. See mkinitrd and the various linux kernel howtos for details.
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