[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi -
> I upgraded recently from grub 0.5 to 0.5.92 .
>
> The commands that I type are:
>
> root=(hd0,0)
> kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> boot
>
> These commands, which did work with 0.5, now result in the following
> error during boot:
>
> [snip - previous boot messages]
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
> Can someone explain the syntax of "03:01" ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are trying to mount hda1 as the root device,
25 root ~ # ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Mar 3 1999 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 3 1999 /dev/sda1
26 root ~ # ls -l /dev/hda /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Mar 3 1999 /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Mar 3 1999 /dev/hda1
>
> I know these three lines worked for 0.5 because I wrote them down and
> have typed them many times. One more difference is that 0.5.92 is
> installed on hd0 the with the following command:
>
> install=/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p
>
> With 0.5 I was booting from floppy.
>
> The hdd is a SCSI drive connected witha sym53c895 and has the
> following partitions:
>
> df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 3958483 2197160 1556524 59% /
> /dev/sda3 1981249 377665 1501184 20% /home
> /dev/sda4 11010995 4594398 5844898 44% /home/data
>
> I was in the process of updating Debian potato (unstable) and there
> were a lot of other packages upgraded along with grub, so there might
> be a cross-dependency that has me confused.
>
> Have any ideas how I should proceed ?
>
> thank you,
> aa
>
Try this,
root=(hd0,0)
kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10 root=/dev/sda1 ro
boot
HTH,
--
Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
