On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote:
> My Linux system failed to boot today with the following messages:
>
> Partition check:
> <appears to be normal>
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:41
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41
The kernel was unable to mount the assigned root device. Unix goes belly up
without a root filesystem.
The "03:41" means the block device with major number 03, minor 41. 03 is
the first IDE bus in the system. Offset 0 is the master, offset 64 is the
slave. 41 would be the 41st partition on the master, which doesn't make a
whole lot of sense to me. (Unless I'm interpreting things wrong, or you
really do have 41 partitions.)
> The system is running RedHat V5.2. Normally this drive is hdb and is booted
> via Boot Magic and LILO. I removed hda, set the old hdb to be the master,
> and booted using my Linux boot diskette.
Did you pass the "root=/dev/hda?" parameter on the LILO command line to tell
the kernel the root has moved? Otherwise, LILO will still be looking for the
root filesystem in the old (or perhaps a typo'ed) location.
--
Ben Scott
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