From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: kernel error? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:01:40 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF056EC.6020002@sancharnet.in> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in, gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, I just compiled my new 2.6 kernel and when I boot thru it, I get an error saying: VFS : cannot open root device "345" or unknown-block (3,69) OK.so I give an argument roo=/dev/hdb5 (that's my root partiton, I get the message VFS : cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0) anyone with an answer? My old kernel worked fine w/o any lilo args. and used to refer to my hdd as (03:05) when I had it as hda. Thanks in advance, deadhead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A life without purpose is like a bird that never learnt to fly....... I am the bird that regularly flies Lufthansa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs