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From: Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:23:59
Message-Id: 9065b8fe0603310517x6429639fq93f8451482ac5c2d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ? by Bo Yang
1 Did you read this ?
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3 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP
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5 Maybe, your right SCSI driver is not enable in the kernel.
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7 On 3/31/06, Bo Yang <struggleyb@×××××.com> wrote:
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9 > Hello everybody :
10 > I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but
11 > I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from
12 > the google and the archive .
13 > So I came here !
14 >
15 > And my problem is that :
16 > I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk
17 > . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but
18 > when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :
19 > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3)
20 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
21 >
22 > But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3
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24 > I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .
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26 > Thanks in advance !
27 >
28 > Best Regard !
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