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From: Nils Ohlmeier <lists@ohlmeier.de>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Cc: "Francois LE BEC" <francois.a.lebec@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] need help
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:40:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020119183956.934101EB56@alderan.ohlmeier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000a01c1a117$fd9bcb10$210a10ac@sniffer>

>
> If I try to boot from the CDROM (no other choice), then I  might enter the
> right command to boot.. but I got an kernel panik instead.
>
> I tried             linux root=/dev/sda1    It doesn't work because I got:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 08:01
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

To boot from CD with a SCSI device as root will only work if you load scsi 
moudles because their are no scsi hardware modules in the kernel.

Greetings
   Nils

P.S.: I suggest the gentoo-user list for those questions.


       reply	other threads:[~2002-01-19 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <000a01c1a117$fd9bcb10$210a10ac@sniffer>
2002-01-19 18:40 ` Nils Ohlmeier [this message]
2002-01-21 12:50 ` [gentoo-dev] need help Damaen

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