From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:31:31 +0000 Subject: Re: a elilo.conf question Message-Id: <20040527183131.GD22140@frankl.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 Hi, On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:21:52PM -0400, Younggyun Koh wrote: > Hi, > > i got the kernel image but still struggling booting... > > elilo.conf entry i set is > > image=/efi/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.6.gz > label=linux2.6.6 > root=/dev/sda3 > read-only > > but when kernel being loaded, i got this error message... > > VFS:Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a currect "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > (/dev/sda3 is mounted to / in the kernel 2.4) > > the itanium 2 machine i'm using is hp zx6000 > Most likely your kernel does not have the SCSI driver you need compiled in. You have two options: - compile the SCSI driver (Fusion) into the kernel - compile the driver as a module, and put it into an initrd. the initrd file must be in the EFI partition. You need to add one line to the above elilo.conf entry: initrd=initrd_file_name -- -Stephane