Re: installation: problem booting

[Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de (Hartmut Koptein)]

I've no experience with BootX, but one isn't correct:

> I get stuck. Booting halts at "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> on 08:17"

08:17 = 16 + 1 = sdb1 

> We have two SCSI drives
> 	Drive 1 (/dev/sda...) MacOS from which we run BootX
> 	Drive 2 /dev/sdb5 MkLinux root
> 	        /dev/sdb6 MkLinux swap
> 	        /dev/sdb7 Debian base 2_2 configured with dselect
> (Step 5, chroot into sdb7 was Ok, running dselect from there.)
> 
> The /mnt/etc/fstab I set to
> 	/dev/sdb7	/	ext2	rw	1	1

sdb7  is  08:23  (16 + 7)

/etc/fstab should look like this:

/dev/sdb7        /              ext2    defaults        0       1
/dev/sdb6       none            swap    sw              0       0


Greetings,


    Hartmut