Re: Kernel Panic Boot Crisis HELP!!

2004-03-29 Thread David Baron
1. Go to /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf If you have a line ROOT=probe or anything like that, here is where you please specify that root! I have an ext3 partition on hdb1 and had the same problem. Changed it to: ROOT="/dev/hdb1 ext3" Note that the quotes are necessary for multiple options on this l

Re: Kernel Panic Boot Crisis HELP!!

2004-03-28 Thread Jason A Whittle
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:03:15AM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > I just installed the 2.4.16 686 kernel image and now when I boot I get these messages > > request_module[block-major-3]: root fs not mounted > VFS: cannot open root device "hda8" or 3:08 > Please append a correct "root=" boot