[gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?

[gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?

[Bo Yang]

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 !






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Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?

[Fernando Antunes]

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Did you read this ?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP

Maybe, your right SCSI driver is not enable in the kernel.

On 3/31/06, Bo Yang <struggleyb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 !
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?

[no on3]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bo Yang" <struggleyb@gmail.com>
> 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 !
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>
 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.

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