On Saturday 14 December 2002 14.59, David List wrote:
The file worked with SuSE Linux 7.3. Things must be a tad different with SuSE Linux 8.1. After removing all SCSI boot options from the system´s BIOS, I got the initial bootloader screen with the different options inserted in /etc/lilo.conf (only two in my case). I also got the first few boot lines. Then kernel panic arose. Here are the last few lines from the boot:
================================================================== Freeing initrd memory: 138k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 ==================================================================
The line that says: 'VFS: Mounted root (ext filesystem).' strikes me, since the only ext2 I have set up on this system during installation is the /boot partition on /dev/sda1.
I believe the "root" it is talking about is the initial ramdisk. It uses an ext2 file system.
All other partitions are ReiserFS. Is that an indication of what goes wrong?
Device 08:03 is /dev/sda3. I'm willing to bet that the problem is your initrd. Do you have "reiserfs" listed in the INITRD_MODULES variable in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Do you have the scsi driver needed to use the sda disk? Did you run "/sbin/mk_initrd"? Anders