From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FPEmX-0001ch-CE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:14:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2V8Cpwr014507; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:12:51 GMT Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2V82PGh002269 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:02:26 GMT Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id F2A5F1800203 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:08:21 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.81) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 31 Mar 2006 08:08:21 -0000 Received: by ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D38261F50B1; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:08:21 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "no on3" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:08:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ? Received: from [68.111.245.141] by ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com with http for ih8u@inorbit.com; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:08:21 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 68.111.245.141 X-Originating-Server: ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20060331080821.D38261F50B1@ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2V82PGh002269 X-Archives-Salt: d1ff9f5e-709a-4985-8e76-670a8a765040 X-Archives-Hash: 9cc8322874ab924cab1616df1d59f794 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bo Yang" > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ? > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:11:18 +0800 > > > Hello everybody : > I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but > I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from > the google and the archive . > So I came here ! > > And my problem is that : > I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk > . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but > when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message : > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3 > > I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime . > > Thanks in advance ! > > Best Regard ! > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > 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. -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list