On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 06:10 -0700, Michael Huston wrote: > I am sorry that I am so dense, but I am still having troubles.
Get up. Sheesh. You don't have to grovel until I tell you to grovel. Seriously, though, insulting yourself is annoying. We're here to help, just leave it at "there's still something I don't understand". > This is the error message that I get on boot: > VFS cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown block(0,0) > Please append a correc "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) Assuming your other kernel entries are able to boot and therefore valid, the kernel doesn't understand the filesystem on the partition. This could be because 1) you forgot to add support for the filesystem or 2) you compiled in support but made it a module so the kernel needs an initrd in order to load the module before mounting the filesystem. (The initrd is to solve this type of chicken and egg problem.) Generally, it's a good idea to make the filesystem containing /boot either ext2 or ext3 and compile support for ext2/3 into you kernel (not as a module). Now if your other menul.lst entries aren't able to boot, the answer is even easier: /dev/hda6 probably doesn't exist. > PS Sorry about the netequite thing. . . Thank you for paying attention. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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