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  • From: "Ken McLennan" <ruadh AT tpg.com.au>
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  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:19:0 +1000

G'day there fellow SM-Users,

I've received valuable advice from this group before so I've come
back again in the hope you can do it again =)

My query this time is about the new 0.7 iso that I've downloaded.
I've transferred it onto a cd and booted with no problems whatsoever.
Therefore I've gotten that part of things correct. The difficult part comes
after that. The cd loads and I then press "Enter" at the "boot:" prompt. That
loads up lots of stuff and begins the Initrd Menu. I then choose "Continue
booting" and the following error message appears:

cdrom:open failed
VFS: cannot open root device "cdroms/cdrom0" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00


Now as I understand it, the ramdisk system is trying (unsuccessfully)
to load "cdroms/cdrom0" as the "/" file system. Is that right? If so, how do
I fix it?

The Initrd Menu lists the following message:

The Source Mage Gnu Linux Install/Rescue CDRom is detected on
/devices/cdroms/cdrom1

If that's the case, why is it detecting on cdrom1 while the system is
trying to load cdrom0?

I've tried booting with "root=/devices/cdroms/cdrom1" but that didn't
work either. Anything I've tried there just leads back to the "boot:" prompt
with a message that there's no kernel found.

I'm sure that there's something simple I'm overlooking, but being
quite inexperienced I can't figure it out myself. Any advice will be warmly
received and given a nice friendly new abode.

Thanks & see ya,
Ken

ruadh AT tpg.com.au
2003-10-02






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