I upgraded my 7.0 box to 7.1 and I get this error...
It's an AMD K6-2 300MHz on a Soyo MB. It's got an adaptec 2940 SCSI card (not
built in) with my HDD, CD-ROM, and Zip disks on it.
I heard about some problems with the aic7xxx driver, but most of the postings
I read mentioned not being able to run the install. I had no problems
whatsoever running the install/upgrade. It all went in w/o a blip.
However, now when I boot, I get the infamous root fs error:
VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
Most of the archived messages and bugzilla stuff indicates that the
problematic Adaptec issues were more around Intel MB's w/ builtin SCSI
controllers. That's not my situation, so I think it's a completely different
problem...
I rebooted the system w/ an old 2.2.17 kernel, so I can get it running to try
to fix it.
My guess is that for some reason the aic7xxx driver is not being loaded or
something like that. I will have to look at the lilo.conf file the upgrade
modified and check to see that the /boot/initrd is indicated and was put into
place like I think it should have been.
IIRC that has to be there to boot from a SCSI controller?
I'm also going to try taking the kernel-2.4.3-x.i386.rpm file in and see if
building the kernel from source with the aic7xxx driver built into the kernel
helps.
If there's anything I should check that I haven't mentioned here, I'd
appreciate some words of wisdom. The downed machine isn't working quite right
with the 2.2.17 kernel in there. It's also my work machine, so I won't be
very productive until I get it all going... :(
Thanks for any and all pointers!
-Michael
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