Re: Kernel 2.6.10-rc1 doesn't boot

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 23:30:49 EST


hans lambrechts <hans.lambrechts@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

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