From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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To: "Pablo E. Limon Garcia Viesca" <plimon@intercable.net>
Subject: Re: GIVEUP [bootup kernel panic 2.6.x] no root partition detected?
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:22:02 -0500
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On Sunday 11 January 2004 00:24, Pablo E. Limon Garcia Viesca wrote:
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>Thanks for your answer, I use LILO but that root is refering to
>presisely the root partition, in my case it its /dev/hda5...
>It is well configured in lilo, I can enter with kernel 2.4... but
> not with 2.6...
>if you want to know, the exact Kernel error at the begining is:
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device "305" or hda5
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda5
>
>but I know hda5 is the partition, maybe there has something to be
> with the fact that the root partition is logical, in the extended
> partiton... I mean is not a primary partition... could this be
> true???

Thats an excellent question, unforch I don't know the definitive 
answer.  But to put that fear to rest, my / partition is on 
/dev/hda7, and /root is on /dev/hda5.  I would think that if thats a 
problem, I would have seen it, and I've been setup that way for the 
last 6 months or so.

That really shouldn't make any more difference than putting /usr on a 
seperate drive does, which is no diff, at least here.

Sorry Pablo, but I'm fresh out of ideas.  But there may be enough 
clues here that someone else can chime in.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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