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From: Bo Yang <struggleyb@gmail.com>
To: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cannt open root device ?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:50:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442CC328.9000906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603302233010.6607@localhost.localdomain>


> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31  5:50 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 [this message]
2006-03-31 11:14     ` Juanjo Escribano
2006-03-31 13:42 ` David Fierbaugh

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