http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ke_eide-scsi.html

Maybe your bios doesn't support booting from the scsi drive?
Joel


On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:34:52AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2001 04:15 am,Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I am rusty on lilo.conf, but here is what works in my box.
> >
> > image = /vmlinuz-NoModules
> >         label  = linux
> >         root   = /dev/hda1
> >         read-only
> >         vga = ask
> >         append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
> > On my linux box, device 8:04 is sda4. (ls -al /dev). I don't know
> > nuthin' about scsi.
> 
> My root directory is on my scsi sda4, and my lilo.conf looks like 
> yours except for the root = /dev/sda4.  At least I now know what the 
> "804" means.  Thanks.
> So now I just need to know why the filesystem won't mount.  I'm not 
> sure it's a lilo problem.
> 
> > Joel
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:53:28AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > Hi list!
> > >
> > > Can someone help me diagnose my kernel bonk?  When I try to boot a
> > > 2.4.4 kernel that I compiled, it seems to go quite a ways into the
> > > boot-up process before it crashes with the following message:
> > >
> > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0
> > > request_module [block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
> > > VFS: Cannot open root device "804" or 08:04
> > > Please append a correct "root = " boot option
> >
> 
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