Check "man initrd" for more information then just about anyone could ask
for. Basicly your booting from scsi, notice the initrd= on the floppy is
missing from the harddisc. i suspect if you look in /boot/ you'll find a
initrd-2.2.9-19mdk, add initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk if so. My guess is
linuxconf rewrote lilo.conf posiblely looseing the line. If it is however
not there you can create it with
"mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk 2.2.9-19mdk"
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Hi....my system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to Windows98 and has a
>single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3
>partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and sdb6 is /). Boot Magic is installed on
>the windows partition and boots Windows properly. But when it boots lilo Linux
>appears at first to be booting normally until the following error occurs:
>
> Partition check:
> request-module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:16
> Kernal panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:16
>
> Then the system freezes. ctl-alt-del will reboot it. Linux boots just fine with a
>floppy boot disc. The floppy boot disc's lilo.conf is:
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sdb6
> initrd=/initrd.img
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> label=rescue
> append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> root=/dev/fd0
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> The lilo conf in sdb6 /etc/lilo.conf is:
>
> boot=/dev/sdb1
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sdb6
> read-only
> other=/dev/sda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/sda
>
> What is wrong, any ideas?
>
> Alan
>
>
