Cannot open root device?

Cannot open root device?

[Bo Yang]

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 !

Re: Cannot open root device?

[Ming Zhang]

u asked in a wrong list. this is a kernel recompilation&installation
question. please go kernel newbie list
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/mailinglist.php3

Ming



On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:33 +0800, Bo Yang wrote:
> 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 !
> 
> 
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