From: Fergal Daly (fergal at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Sun 30 Jul 2000 - 03:30:43 IST
Don't know much about the naming scheme for devices but this
fergal at domain whizzo:~> ls -l /dev/hda?
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 May 5 1998 /dev/hda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 May 5 1998 /dev/hda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 May 5 1998 /dev/hda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 May 5 1998 /dev/hda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 May 5 1998 /dev/hda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 May 5 1998 /dev/hda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 8 May 5 1998 /dev/hda8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 9 May 5 1998 /dev/hda9
seems to indicate that 03:06 is actually /dev/hda6. Of course the kernel
may have different ideas about numbering shemes. Trying passing
root=/dev/hda5 as an argument at the lilo prompt to make extra sure,
Fergal
At 23:15 29/07/00, Diarmaid O'Loughlin wrote:
>I keep getting this error msg when I boot my new kernel.
...
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
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