From: Juanjo Escribano <jescribano@zitralia.com>
To: Bo Yang <struggleyb@gmail.com>
Cc: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cannt open root device ?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:14:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143803667.3684.8.camel@juanjo.zitralia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442CC328.9000906@gmail.com>
Hi,
I'm not sure but maby you don't have the correct modules to manage the
disk emulated by VMware in the initrd. I have a FC4 installed on a
vmware machine with SCSI disk and I need that initrd loads this modules
to wark fine: scsi_mod, sd_mod, mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi. Without this
modules the kernel can't manage the disk and it can't create the root
device to do the switchroot.
I hope it can help you.
Good Luck!!
Juanjo
El vie, 31-03-2006 a las 13:50 +0800, Bo Yang escribió:
> > This is actually a VMware question more than a Linux question. They
> > have a user forum: have you tried posting about your problem there? I
> > have a little bit of experience with VMware, but you don't provide
> > enough information for me to take a stab at what the problem might
> > be. First, is this a virtual disk or are you trying to use an actual
> > scsi hardware disk for your Gentoo install? I have no expereince with
> > using a real disk or partition for the guest OS, only with virtual disks.
> It is a scsi virtual disk , and VM display it as '' Hard Disk 1:
> (SCSI 0:0)"
> > So I might not be able to help with that anyway. If it's a virtual
> > partition I can't understand why you would specify it as /dev/sda3.
> > I've always put OS's on the first partition of the virtual disk.
> > VMware presents these virtual disks to the host OS as scsi disks, so
> > my experience has always been with systems installed to /dev/sda1.
> > Did you partition the (virtual?) disk and put /home and swap or
> > something on the other 2 partitions? Anyway, I'm not even sure I can
> > help. Probably best to try the VMware forums.
> And I have partition the disk for 4 part .
> /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs
> /dev/sda2 swap swap
> /dev/sda3 / reiserfs
> /dev/sda4 /usr reiserfs
>
> So I tell the lilo to mount the root file system in the partition
> /dev/sda3 , is it wrong ?
>
> Thank you for your reply !
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-31 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-31 2:48 cannt open root device ? Bo Yang
2006-03-31 4:40 ` James Miller
2006-03-31 5:50 ` Bo Yang
2006-03-31 11:14 ` Juanjo Escribano [this message]
2006-03-31 13:42 ` David Fierbaugh
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