Hi, Hi Kent, sorry for not using a meaningful subject, often time I overlook those emails without a useful subject myself, never know what you will get with all these crazy viruses, etc. going around...smile. I hit SEND before checking my email more carefully.
Also to Andreas, I am sorry I responded to your response and my email package uses the poster, not the newsgroup, as it's TO: address. I try never to respond directly unless the poster requests it. Also, by responding back to the newsgroup maybe others can benefit from the thread. As far as I know my disk configuration has not changed and I have not added any new hard drives. I remember doing something with the kernel a while back, but it has worked since then, unless I was very lucky and now my luck has run out...smile. My system is dual boot, Windows XP on one drive as partition hda1 and then linux as one partition on a second hard drive as hdb1, with three dos partitions on that same drive (hdb5, hdb6, hdb7). Do I type this at the lilo boot screen: linux root=/dev/hdb1? And if I can't get that to boot into Debain, how do I check the boot loader configuration? I will try booting from my original install disk and check the hard drive, which I hope is not going bad. And I will check the /etc/lilo.conf, now that I get thinking more about this I, as I stated earlier I changed the kernel and I thought the I read somewhere to change the /etc/lilo.conf, maybe that was not the thing to do. I just checked my notes and found this from when I changed the kernel: Add initrd=/initrd to /etc/lilo.conf. If I have already done so, then put do_initrd=YES in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Which I recall doing. Maybe we are on to something here? I am learning as I go, even though I have been doing basic things with Linux for a number of years. I will let everyone know what I find. Thanks for the help and I will keep you informed of my success, hopefully...smile. James E. Merritt ----- Original Message ----- From: Kent West Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:56:34 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot Open Root Device - Was: Unidentified subject! > JAMES MERRITT wrote: > > >Hi everyone, > > > >I am having a little problem with my Debian Woody. The other day when I tried to > >boot into Woody, > >it started the normal text bootup screen before it goes into to KDE graphical login > >screen. > >But, during the text portion of the boot up process, it stopped and gave this > >message: > > > >VFS: Cannot open root device "346" or 03:47. > >Please append a correct "root=" boot option. > >Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:46. > > > >What does all of this mean, what is going on and what can I do to correct this? > >I am lost at this point. > > > > > > Let me encourage you to use a meaningful subject line. > > It means that for whatever reason, the system can't find your root > partition. Have you upgraded your kernel lately, or switched from ext2 > to ext3, or something similar? > > Do you have a Debian installation CD, or a Knoppix CD? If so, boot off > either of those, then you can mount your hard drive and take a look > around to see what might be broken. Perhaps you need to fsck your root > partition; perhaps /etc/lilo.conf got changed to point to the wrong > partition; perhaps you're dual-booting and Windows got virus-infected > which messed with the partition table; perhaps you have a failing hard > drive. Any number of things. > > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
