From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1.danielvalve.com ([12.19.96.6] helo=mail1.danielind.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15eIdJ-0001DR-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:01:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3B94FDD8.57299102@daniel.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:14:16 -0500 From: Vipin Malik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Allaire CC: David Woodhouse , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: lilo and mtd ans doc References: <9A1957CB9FC45A4FA6F35961093ABB8404345569@srvmail-mtl.ubisoft.qc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Patrick Allaire wrote: > I have tried what you have told me but it does not seem to change a thing > !!! The systems is still hanging on "Kernel panic : VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on 03:05" !!!!!!!!! > > Where does it find the information to search 03:05 to boot ? I did compile > the kernel on /dev/hda5 !!! Is there a place in the kernel config where I > could specify the boot device ? Is this information stored in boot.b-mtd (I > dont think so) ? In the /boot/map ??? the last one is generated by lilo ? no > ? so it should not contain /dev/hda5 information since I run lilo-mtd from a > floppy the HD was removed ! > > I have added those two lines to my lilo.conf : > > prompt > timeout=50 > > Then I have tried what you told me. When I boot ... I write : > > lilo: s append="root=/dev/nftla1" This may be a valid way to specify lilo cmd's too, but I would do just: LILO: s root=/dev/nftla1 and try that. You need the append="...." only when you specify the cmd line args in the lilo.conf file, not if you are specifing them during boot time. Vipin > >