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> ----- Original Message ----- |
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> From: "Bo Yang" <struggleyb@×××××.com> |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ? |
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:11:18 +0800 |
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> Hello everybody : |
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> I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but |
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> I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from |
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> the google and the archive . |
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> So I came here ! |
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> And my problem is that : |
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> I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk |
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> . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but |
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> when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message : |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3) |
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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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> But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3 |
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> I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime . |
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> Thanks in advance ! |
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> Best Regard ! |
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Although I have never used VMware, I have had the same error message before. It turned out that I had either forgot to put support for the file system in the kernel that my partition was formatted in, or that I had mistyped the root= line. I can also tell you that if you used genkernel to build your kernel (but it sounds like you didn't) it requires several different kernel parameters to boot. Hope this helps. |
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