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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi again, |
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> Same new machine - new thread so as to not confuse the other thread |
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> about flags. |
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> I made enough headway with grub to get it to find a kernel and try |
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> to boot, but fails with the message: |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0) |
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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; Here are the available partitions: |
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> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) |
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> Note that is lists nothing when it says 'Here are the available partitions:' |
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It really seems like it's missing the appropriate filesystem driver to me. |
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Since you mentioned ext2 and ext3 built into the kernel but not ext4, |
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I wonder if the auto-detect is trying to mount your partition as ext4 |
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type? Try to add the rootfstype=ext3 (or whatever your root FS type |
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is) to your boot line to force it to use the specific filesystem |
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driver you want. |
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