Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

["Drew J. Como" <dcomo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I am trying to build an NFS boot disk that will essentially
boot the system via floppy using a 2.4.20 kernel  (It seems 
to work great with my SuSE 7.2 boxes), grab a DHCP address
from my DHCP server and then pull a custom SuSE distribution
from my NFS Server.

I think I may be missing something in my kernel, but I've looked
high and low and cannot seem to find it.  The error I am getting
is:

VFS= Cannot open root device " " or 03:03.  Please append a correct
"root=" to the boot option.

So I did, I added a root=/dev/nfs.  That failed with:
VFS= Cannot open root device "dev" or 00:ff.  Please append a correct
"root=" to the boot option.

What am I doing wrong, or what am I missing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks :-)

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Drew J. Como             Phone: 631-434-6600
Systems Administrator      Fax: 631-434-7800
dcomo@xxxxxxxxxx         Web: www.bascom.com
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