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From: Spires J Spires
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00

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> Try giving a root flag at boot prompt, ie. if your root partition is
> /dev/sda1, at "boot:" key in
> "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1". This is assuming that "linux" is pointing to
> the new kernel image as directed in lilo.
> 
> Regit


thanks, but no dice.

This is already specified correctly in /etc/lilo.conf >> root=/dev/hda5,
booting with this command makes no diffence. Boot still halts with:

VFS: Cannon open root device 03:05
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

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SJS.

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