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* Re: [gentoo-dev] vfs error
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@ 2002-06-20 15:08 99% ` Michael R. Gayeski
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From: Michael R. Gayeski @ 2002-06-20 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: bill and joe; +Cc: gentoo-dev

On Friday 21 June 2002 02:33, bill and joe wrote:
> sorry for bugging you again but i think i allmost have this wipped. 

First off, this is the development list. Take the question to the 
gentoo-newbies list or perhaps ask in the forums or IRC. 

> using a scsi hard drive when i go to boot  i get "vfs: cannot open root
> device "hda3" or 03:03 please append a correct "root=" boot option
> kernel panic:vfs: unable to mount root fs on 03:03
> i am sure it will be something dumb that i am just over looking but it just
> does not seem to click. thanks joe email:sweetangelhsd@earthlink.net

hdaX are the partitions on your first IDE device. You need to do everything on 
/dev/sdaX, assuming you only have one SCSI device. Go read the SCSI HOWTO,
it will help you understand what you are doing wrong. 

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