[plug] kernel panic ?

[Christian]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:21:36PM +0800, James Tan wrote:
> whoa...i got this cool msg and i'm wundrin what to do about it :
> 
> kernel panic: VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30 [bootup stalls from
> there...]
> 
> i dunno what it is but someone it won't boot from HD and i have to resort to
> booting from floppy...
> 
> any ideas ? i'm using RH6.0 btw...

Have you shifted your hard disks around lately?  Basically sounds like
the kernel is looking for the root filesystem on a device where it is
not.  Try giving the correct device on the LILO prompt:

LILO boot: linux root=/dev/hdXX

Where "/dev/hdXX" is the correct root device.  You can fix this
permanently by editing your /etc/lilo.conf file

Regards,

Christian.