On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:36 +0200, Alen Salamun wrote:
> Cannot open root device "" 08:05
> kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs
>
> I have installed Mandrake 8.0 from the same CD many times, so it can't be
> some damaged iso or whatever...
>
> I have tried to boot RedHat 6.1 installation and it worked right away! So
> it
> must be something with mandrake 8.0! I have noticed on newsgroups, that
> some
> ppl have same problem with Mandrake 8.0!
Well, it might be the same principle which was a minor caveat during my
installation of 8.0. The CD booted and everything worked right until I
came to the package selection. There it crashed due to the slow spin-up
time of my Plextor SCSI 40x CDROM. I tried installation from my cd-writer
which is also Plextor SCSI on the same host-adaptor as the CDROM. There
everything worked w/o probs.
That shows that there are parameters in the installation scripts which
don't conform to *all* the hardware in the world. Maybe in my case it's
the timeout-value which is too short. One cannot declare a 40x SCSI
Plextor CDROM as "out-of-date" hardware which doesn't meet modern Linux
standards, or can you?
Maybe there's something similar in your case. Try - if possible - to
change the harddisk just for a test. Or the data cable or whatever is
involved (No, I don't did *not* say you should substitute the user as
well!).
wobo
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