[Sderby] Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 21:03

[David Bottrill]

Ron,

Try booting and with the additional kernel parameter root=/dev/sda3 on
the Grub command line, this command may be there, if so if it is
pointing to the wrong partition then change it to sda3. Can you remember
how YAST decided to partition the disk? usually it will format sda1(or
hda1)as swap and make sda2 (hda2) as / (root) if the above fails and the
boot command says sda3, try changing it to sda2.

David Bottrill



On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 13:39, Ron Smith wrote:
>  I've bought a copy of Suse Linux v8.1 pro. I have loaded it and now when
> booting it hangs on an error:-
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 21:03
> 
> The machine I loaded is a Dual P III 800 the Hard Drives are mounted on a
> pci Raid card (100 udma) instead of the on board IDE ports (UDMA66).
> 
> I think i have pushed my look too far!! When I boot I have a choice of Linux
> or Linux Safe Settings, when I choose the latter I boot to a command prompt
> but, of course; I do not know enough to go futher.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Next Attempt
> Disconnected IDE drives, unplugged pci Raid card.
> 
> Installed SCSI  Hard Drive
> 
> (Initial attempts at Suse install ended with not System Disk failure) so
> 
> Formatted and made bootable
> Ran SUSE 8.1 Installation - This time boot OK!
> 
> Error
> 
> KMOD: failed to exec /sbin /modprobe -s -k block major-8 errno=2
> VFS: cannot open root device "sda3"
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 08:03
> 
> 
> --Same hang up again. Can anyone help Please?
> 
> --
> Ron Smith   email: ron@brooklands-farm.co.uk
> 
> 
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