Re: kernel panic.

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From: Regit Young
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00

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You got me stump on this one, sorry. I've never try booting Linux from a
logical partition either.

Again, sorry.

Regit

Spires J Spires wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> ---------------
> SJS.

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Regit Young : regit@wantree.com.au

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