From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:39:26 +0000 Subject: Re: a elilo.conf question Message-Id: <16566.13790.715211.53735@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:21:52 -0400 (EDT), Younggyun Koh said: Younggyun> but when kernel being loaded, i got this error message... Younggyun> VFS:Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Younggyun> Please append a currect "root=" boot option Kernel panic: Younggyun> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Younggyun> (/dev/sda3 is mounted to / in the kernel 2.4) Younggyun> the itanium 2 machine i'm using is hp zx6000 That's usually an indication that the disk driver is missing. Depending on your host controller, you may need to enable CONFIG_FUSION=y and/or CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MAX_TAGSd --david