On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >> I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro >... >So you upgraded kernel. > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted >> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 >... >So you can not mount root. Is root ext2? >> The funny thing is that if I use the append root=/dev/hda3 in >> lilo.conf, it doesn't work. However if I load the debian rescue disk >> and specify root=/dev/hda3, the kernel boots fine. Why won't it just >> boot? > >Let's do one thing. Boot system with boot disk with root=/dev/hda3 >and gain root. > ># vi lilo.conf ># lilo ># shutdown -r now
I have posted this same problem 2/6 for which I apologize to the list for not having caught this thread. Now my ignorant question is--how do you pass arguments prior to or during boot? As above, how does one go about booting the system off the rescue disk with "root=/dev/hda3"? <--My 7th grade English teacher would have had a cat :-), but doing it right looks so wrong. Further, it looks like you're opening vi with the file lilo.conf which seems unlikely since lilo.conf is in /etc, isn't it? Is this actually opening a configurator? (I don't have any man pages available at the moment.) And, no editing is indicated. Then, run lilo. OK. Shutdown/reboot. I have seen this all discussed on the list and in various books, but the mechanics of it seems to have avoided mental absorption. gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash
