On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:24:50 -0500 "Jerome Henin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) LILO does not get any keyboard input. The only way I could interact > with the LILO menu was plugging in an external USB keyboard, which > made the internal one work! Anyway, once the right kernel is setup, > this is only a minor annoyance. Same problem here. I switched to grub because lilo didn't seem to handle any input at all but it still doesn't work all the time, whether I have an external keyboard or not. On a related topic, even after startup some key presses are ignored. This only seems to happen in X. When I change window focus my next 2 key presses are ignored. Very annoying. Not sure whether it's hardware related. > 2) On boot, I get these messages: > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs, etc. > I would think there is something wrong with the partition table or the > initrd if this was systematic, but it isn't. Sometimes it boots > straight away, and if I just keep rebooting eventually it works. I > would think it is a pure hardware problem, but MacOS never has any > trouble booting. Yes, that too. I thought it was something to do with suspend2 since I usually get a warning saying (more or less) "suspend=/dev/sda4 can't be found, press space to reboot or C to continue". If I continue I immediately get a kernel panic as you describe. A reboot always works fine. No ideas at the moment. Regards, -- Carl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
