On Mon, 3 May 2004, Carlos E. R. wrote:
See if file "/etc/sysconfig/kernel" contains the line:
INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs"
It does.
That should be booting "vmlinuz" in the first IDE disk, first partition. Ie, hda1 should be "/boot". That is correct, I think.
Correct.
however, you reported the error as:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" on 03:03"
That, according to grub manual, should be hardisk number four (it is cero based), and partition number four (primary) - that doesn't make much sense, if the error comes from grub.
You are correct that grub numbers from zero, but that message is coming from the kernel on the /boot partition, not grub.
Have you changed the ordering of disks in the bios? Boot sequence?
No. I can boot the SuSE 7.3 system I have on my /dev/hdb disk and mount /dev/hda3 on /mnt. I don't need that old 7.3 system, and I intend to install SuSE 8.2 on top of it to get mostly back to where I was. I've mounted the /var partition and looked at the /var/log/messages file, but there is nothing suspicious in there. Specifically, no disk I/O errors reported. /jw -- John Wilkes john at wilkes dot com