[plug] kernel panic ?

[James Tan]

> 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.
>

Thanks.... that sure fixed the problem.

James