kernel panic on boot

[Shawn Protsman]

Is there anyone who can help?  I have reinstalled YD 3 about 5 times 
now and the result is the same.  I have switched the scsi drives so 
that I'm booting OS 9 from sdb and YD from sda now.  Still can't get 
past the kernel panic.

This is really frustrating as earlier version of YD worked fine.  I 
want to use YD but I'm considering a different distro now.

Is there anyone who can point me in the right direction?


On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 22:28 US/Central, Shawn Protsman wrote:

> I just reformatted my YD 2.3 installation and installed 3.0.  After 
> installation has completed and the computer is rebooted I get the 
> following:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb6" or 08:16
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:16
>
> I never had this issue with YD 2.3.  Does anyone know what the 
> solution may be?
>
> One oddity I noticed during the installation was found on page 6 of "A 
> Companion to Installing Yellow Dog Linux 3.0".  It says to create a 1 
> MB partition using the type "Apple BootStrap'.  I don't receive this 
> option.  The drop down menu only contains ext2, ext3 and swap.  Could 
> this be related to the above problem?
>
> PowerCenter Pro 240
> 64 MBs RAM
> 2 GB UWide SCSI (Mac OS 9)
> 9 GB UWide SCSI (Linux)
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
>
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