Jozsef Bakosi wrote: > Originally, I had the default arcboot.conf after a fresh install (using > Martin's image at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/o2/o2-boot.img (2004-12-20)) > as follows: > > label=linux > image=/vmlinux > append="root=/dev/sda1" > > Now, wanting to set up X and fbdev, I added the folowing: > > label=linux > image=/vmlinux > append="root=/dev/sda1" > append="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > ...and rebooted. Now, the boot stops with > > ... > UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) > > I guess, I shouldn't have put two append lines in arcboot.conf but I'm not > sure.
Yes, the last append line overrides earlier ones. > Also, do I have to rerun arcboot (like LILO) to apply the changes in the > arcboot.conf? No, just editing arcboot.conf is enough. > Is there a way to make this system bootable without reinstall? IIRC booting with the following firmware command will do: boot linux append="root=/dev/sda1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Thiemo
