sigh

[Duane Foster]

The following was applied to a Beige G3 300 and an IDE drive, it may not =
work with SCSI  i had the same result as you with SCSI, then I installed =
an IDE drive I had laying around and finally stumbled on the solution =
below.  I got the same error whether SCSI or IDE.  I did not go back and =
try this with SCSI, so it may not work.

Error message:
 Upon restarting Linux there is a kernel panic:
 VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 00:00
 Please append a correct "root=3D" boot option
 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
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Solution:
The kernel found the root filesystem when I added "root=3D/dev/hda6" =
string to the kernel options in BootX.  This seems redundant since there =
is a specific entry for the / partition in BootX, but this additional =
argument did the trick.

hth
duane


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason McQueen [mailto:jasonm@bdfox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:51 PM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: sigh
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> Well here is my story:
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> I get a Beige G3 233 from my job for free and decide what a nice=20
> opportunity to install Linux. The machines specs are as follows: G3=20
> 233mhz, 2 4gb HD (IBM and Segate), 256 MB RAM, floopy and CDROM, 2 MB=20
> on board VRAM. So I partion the first drive on the SCSI (the IBM) as=20
> unallocated, and install 9.2 on the Segate 4 GB drive. I then=20
> drag Boot=20
> X over to the desktop, unstuffit, and place the extension in the=20
> extensions folder, all the rest goes in the system folder. I=20
> click boot=20
> X, choose the Boot img, enable SCSI and away I go.. I format=20
> the drive=20
> using Disk Druid as Follows: First is Boot (ext2) at 100mb (when I do=20
> smaller it says YDL likes 75MB+), then comes Swap 512MB, then=20
> / (ext2)=20
> and click use remaining but I also do the math from the graph in the=20
> graphical installer. So I then pick the packages, and it installs=20
> perfectly. I then reboot pick Linux, take off the boot img,=20
> and set the=20
> drive to sda6 like it told me too. It tries to start but then=20
> gives me=20
> "Kernal Panic cant load the sda6 partition" so I take the sda6 off in=20
> Boot X and let it boot I then get a Kernal Panic Reboot in=20
> 180 seconds=20
> error.
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> Sorry if this is so long, but I have used the search and am=20
> at a loss.=20
> So any help would be appreciated, linux is starting to haunt=20
> my dreams=20
> and if I don't vanquish the demon soon its all over for me :-).
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> -Jason
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> p.s. does anyone know of a good PPC CD Distro (I have=20
> Knoppix, but want=20
> to use Linux on my Mac's not my PC. You see Windows is enough trouble=20
> already :P ) , maybe the install route will only drive me=20
> nuts! Thanks=20
> again
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