From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: hans lambrechts <hans.lambrechts@skynet.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.10-rc1 doesn't boot
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:09:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025160924.0adb3d32.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410231616120.6852@pc.home.lan>
hans lambrechts <hans.lambrechts@skynet.be> wrote:
>
> when i'm booting my box with kernel 2.6.10-rc1 i get this message:
>
> VFS: cannot open root device "sdb7" or unknown-block (8,32)
>
> i've tried "root=8:32" w/o any improvement
> kernel 2.6.9 is booting w/o complaining with "root=/dev/sdb7"
Probably something has gone wrong with the device known as sdb. Or its
driver. We'd need to see more of the boot messages to tell. Did the scsi
layer say anything nasty when it was probing devices?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-23 14:26 hans lambrechts
2004-10-25 23:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-26 9:11 ` hans lambrechts
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