Re: Weird Boot failure

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:40:19PM -0600, Robert E. Harvey, M.D. wrote:
> I've just installed Slackware 9.1 and would like to use Grub 0.94 to 
> boot to it and other OSs. I get a kernel panic with the following maneuvers:
> 
> root (hd0,1) #no problem. The file system is correctly identified
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22 root=/dev/sda5 ro hdc=ide-scsi        # no 
                  ^^^                  ^^^^
> problem. the kernel is identified
> 
> boot        # A problem: see below for error messages
> 
> kmod: failed to exec /wbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2
> 
> VFS Cannot open root device "sda5" or 08:05
> 
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> 
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:05

I think the kernel you use to boot doesn't support SCSI and isn't
able to mount your root partition on your SCSI drive.

Jeroen Dekkers