From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bo Yang Subject: cannt open root device ? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:48:37 +0800 Message-ID: <442C9885.8000703@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hello everybody : I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from the google and the archive . So I came here ! And my problem is that : I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message : VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3 I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime . Thanks in advance ! Best Regard ! - 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