Boot Problems

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:05, David Demland wrote:
> I for got to include that right now I am getting a kernel panic.
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of David
> Demland
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:56 AM
> To: Plug-Discuss
> Subject: Boot Problems
> 
> 
> I did an apt-get upgrade and got some update code. As part of this update I
> got a new iptables package. After rebooting the iptables complained about
> needing an update kerenel. So I got the new 2.4.18-k6 kernel and installed
> it. During the reboot I remembered that I did not run LILO. The system did
> not boot of course. So I tried to boot the old OS and it would not boot
> either. I have since used a rescue disk and I can boot and mount the root
> drive and I have ran LILO as well as to check some other things out. The
> system still will not boot from the hard drive. Any ideas?
> 
....
you're obviously gonna have to use the rescue disk again...pay attention
to which partition the / is on (/dev/hda?)

edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect that (been a while since I used lilo)

then run lilo again...make sure that when you run lilo, you specify
verbose so if it fails to verify something like the location of the root
volume...you don't have to reboot to find out.

e.g.
lilo -v

Craig