--- Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:48:52 -0800 (PST), Brian Showalter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda8" or unknown-block(2,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs or > > unknown-block(2,0) > Which should be your root device? > Do you need special device driver to access your drive which hold > the > root partition? Then append the name of the kernel module to > /etc/modules. Therefore you can use the variable $moduleslist in a > *.var file.
The root should be on /dev/hda8, and the /boot partition is on /dev/hda1. This is on a standard IDE drive. I tried adding the ide-disk module to the $moduleslist variable in /usr/share/fai/class/FAIBASE.var, ran make-fai-nfsroot again and then did another install which also resulted in the same kernel panic. I then tried compiling and setting up a custom kernel with the IDE disk driver explicitly built in, same results.
