From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bo Yang Subject: Re: cannt open root device ? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:50:32 +0800 Message-ID: <442CC328.9000906@gmail.com> References: <442C9885.8000703@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Miller Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > 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 ! - 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