I am dual booting xp and linux on a single harddrive. I got both booting with xp controlling the mbr and I added my linux grub bootsector to the xp boot.ini in order to get linux to boot. I installed debian off the sarge net install cd using the 2.6 kernel. The kernel that came with it runs fine, but I compiled and installed a new kernel and it will not run. When I boot to it, it complains : VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
By the way: /dev/hda3 is / /dev/hda6 is boot The auto generated boot options in grub are as follows(the top two work, the bootom don't): title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.5-1-386 root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.5-1-386 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.5-1-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.5-1-386 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.5 root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5 root=/dev/hda3 ro savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.5 (recovery mode) root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5 root=/dev/hda3 ro single savedefault boot Might this have something to do with the no initrd option? I thought debian boot loaders used the whole vmlinuz vmlinuz.old scenario, is there a way to make this work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
