Re: [TCLUG:19333] VFS: Unable to mount root fs

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

John Hawley wrote:
> 
> I've been playing around with bare-metal backup/recoveries and am getting these
> as the last lines on the console on boot:
> ...
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
> <hangs>

The kernel is trying to mount your root filesystem from your first SCSI
hard drive.  If your hard drive is a SCSI drive, you probably forgot to
compile in the driver for the SCSI controller.  If you don't have SCSI
drives, then you have to fix your lilo.conf to point to /dev/hda1 or
whatever instead of /dev/sda1.

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