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SpamMonkey
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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 9:54 am Post subject: "Please append a correct root= option" problem. |
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Hi Folks,
I've gone through the installation process for using a stage 3 tarball (I downloaded the Athlon XP version as I'm obviously running an XP processor)
I'm installing Gentoo into VMWare so I can try it out before I install it properly.
The drives are arranged like so;
| Quote: | SDA1: boot
SDA5: Swap space
SDA6: Gentoo (and root?) |
I've managed to get grub installed without any problems except that when it boots I get the following error message
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Cannot open root device "sda6" or 08:06
Please append a correct root= option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06 |
My Grub.lst file looks like this;
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root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda6
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Have I made a silly error? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Cheers,
Gavin
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Are you certain that all of the SCSI drivers needed to mount sda6 are in your kernel? SCSI host adaptor driver, SCSI support, SCSI disk support?
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SpamMonkey
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Rac..
It seems like I did make a silly error.. I'll try adding all the scsi support and see if that gets it loading..
Thanks very much
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