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[Markus Koßmann <mkossmann_ml1@xxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 schrieb JC Francois:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to upgrade to 11.1 yesterday but I ended up with an unusable
> system.
>
> At startup, after choosing OpenSUSE 11.1 in the GRUB boot menu I get the
> following error message:
>
> -------------------------------
> VFS: Cannot open root device
> disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM3320620AS_6QF1LW22-part 4 or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> -------------------------------
[...]
> I ran out of options and I would appreciate some help. Thanks beforehand.
That looks like a missing driver module for the harddisk controler. Could you 
check /etc/sysconfig/kernel if the INITRD_MODULES entry in 
/etc/sysconfig/kernel includes the necessary modules. If not , you have to 
rebuild your initrd to include the missing modules. 


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