DOC 2000 Boot Problem
Chris Robson
robsonc at phocussystems.com
Mon Apr 9 21:20:44 EDT 2001
Can you give me an example of what that command line is. I have a
root=/dev/nftla1 line in my lilo config file, is there something else I
need to do?
-- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Ollie Lho [mailto:ollie at sis.com.tw]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:02 PM
To: Chris Robson
Cc: mtd at infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC 2000 Boot Problem
Chris Robson wrote:
>
> Are there any issues w/ using a 8MB Disk on Chip 2000 (PN D2200-D08).
> I installed Kernel 2.4.3 w/ the MTD image from April 5. And when the
> system boots from the DOC, I see two things:
>
> During the detection of something at the very start of the
> kernel, there is garbage displayed on the screen.
>
> When the kernel is done booting, and it goes to mount root as
> /dev/nftla1 it says
>
> "VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:05
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
The kernel wants to mount root filesystem from /dev/hda1 rather
then /dev/nftla1. You have to issue kernel command line for
your lilo.
Ollie
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