ben measures

Have you compiled chipset and SCSI support into the kernel (not as modules)?

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Ben M.

stuart luscombe

Hi all,

I've been doing a gentoo install on vmware workstation 4.5 from a livecd
and following the handbook from gentoo.org but on a reboot I am getting
the following 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

I am using kernel 2.4.28-r5

The drive comes up as a SCSI device /dev/sda.

lilo contains the following entries:

root=/dev/sda

image=/boot/kernel-2.4.28-gentoo-r5
root=/dev/sda3
label=Gentoo
read-only

I tried messing about with the root= setting between the different
partitions (boot is on sda1, root is on sda3) but no luck.

Any ideas?

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Stuart