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  • From: Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
  • To: Ken McLennan <ruadh AT tpg.com.au>
  • Cc: "SM-Users AT lists.ibiblio.org" <SM-Users AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] (no subject)
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:34:39 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

the "missing kernel" message is most probably caused by the fact that you
wrote root=... right after the boot prompt but you didn't specify the
kernel first :)
Correctly it should be "linux root=...", where that 'linux' is name of
kernel image. You can try pressing TAB to get list of kernels available,
but I'm not sure if it is supported in all versions of LILO. Just try and
see :)

Good luck
Andy



On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Ken McLennan wrote:

> 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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