From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Niklas Vainio <niklas.vainio@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test4] VFS: Cannot open root device
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:49:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030825134936.GI454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030825130331.GA20696@vinku.pingviini.net>
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:03:31PM +0300, Niklas Vainio wrote:
> I get this at boot with 2.6.0-test[3,4]:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "341" or unknown-block(3,65) for ext3 error=-6
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,65)
>
> Before this, kernel seems to detect hard disks just fine.
>
> This system boots fine with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. I have tried setting
> root=/dev/hdb1 and rootfstype=ext2 (hdb1 is ext2) but this doesn't help.
> Config below. Is something missing?
> CONFIG_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK is not set
This. IDE driver will find the hardware, all right, but there will be
nothing that would know how to talk with IDE disks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-25 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-25 13:03 [2.6.0-test4] VFS: Cannot open root device Niklas Vainio
2003-08-25 13:49 ` viro [this message]
2003-08-26 5:46 ` Resident Boxholder
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