From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Unable to boot 2.6.0-test1-mm2 (mm1 is OK) on RH 9.0.93 (Severn) From: Steven Cole In-Reply-To: <1058887517.1668.16.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> References: <1058887517.1668.16.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058981039.1668.107.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 23 Jul 2003 11:23:59 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 09:25, Steven Cole wrote: > I get this error when trying to boot 2.6.0-test1-mm2 using the new Red > Hat beta (Severn). 2.6.0-test2-mm2 runs successfully on a couple of > other test boxes of mine. > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) After reading a recent thread on lkml, I changed the "root=" thusly: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test1-mm2 label=2.6.0-test1mm2 read-only append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda1" to this append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi root=0301" And now 2.6.0-test1-mm2 boots and runs. Steven -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org