Re: Error - VFS Cannot open root device 00:00
"Daniels, Craig" wrote:
>
> I tried installing potato on my Mac 840av (48M RAM) last night and made it a
> lot farther that when I tried slink. Using the Color by Penguin option, it
> boots into Linux and everything seems to be going OK until I get this:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> VFS Cannot open root device 00:00
> Kernel panick: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> Penguin reports an error shutting off slot1, but it continues to boot. I'm
> using the files (linux and root.bin) from the mac directory in the
> macinstall.gz archive. Has anyone seen this or know how to get around it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig Daniels
> craig.daniels@hboc.com
>
It sounds like you left forgot the boot=/dev/ram entry in the Command
Line: box on the Options tab of the Penguin settings.
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Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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