
I have two discs - one ide and another SATA. The ide disc has windows. The SATA drive is divided into 8 partitions and one swap. I installed CRUX on sda6 and tried to boot but got yhe following msg: "kernel panic - not syncing, VFS :unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,6) " The /etc/lilo.conf is as follows: " lba32 install=text boot=/dev/sda6 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=CRUX root=/dev/sda6 read-only append="quiet" " How to boot CRUX ? Boovarahan S Please visit http://www.bajajinsurance.110mb.com For your web hosting needs (both free and paid) visit http://www.110mb.com/aff.php?un=bajajinsurance

Hi, Boovarahan Srinivasan Iyengar wrote:
I have two discs - one ide and another SATA. The ide disc has windows. The SATA drive is divided into 8 partitions and one swap. I installed CRUX on sda6 and tried to boot but got yhe following msg:
"kernel panic - not syncing, VFS :unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,6) "
The /etc/lilo.conf is as follows:
" lba32 install=text boot=/dev/sda6 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=CRUX root=/dev/sda6 read-only append="quiet" "
How to boot CRUX ?
Boovarahan S
Did you configure properly your /etc/fstab file? Best regards, Jose V Beneyto

Jose V Beneyto wrote:
Hi,
Boovarahan Srinivasan Iyengar wrote:
I have two discs - one ide and another SATA. The ide disc has windows. The SATA drive is divided into 8 partitions and one swap. I installed CRUX on sda6 and tried to boot but got yhe following msg:
"kernel panic - not syncing, VFS :unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,6) "
The /etc/lilo.conf is as follows:
" lba32 install=text boot=/dev/sda6
boot=/dev/sda
image=/boot/vmlinuz label=CRUX root=/dev/sda6
root=/dev/sda6 is correct
read-only append="quiet" "
append="quiet"
How to boot CRUX ?
Boovarahan S
Did you configure properly your /etc/fstab file?
Would help if lilo was configured properly first. :)
Best regards,
Jose V Beneyto
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Hi, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 22:36:38 +0200, Jose V Beneyto wrote:
Hi,
Boovarahan Srinivasan Iyengar wrote:
I have two discs - one ide and another SATA. The ide disc has windows. The SATA drive is divided into 8 partitions and one swap. I installed CRUX on sda6 and tried to boot but got yhe following msg:
"kernel panic - not syncing, VFS :unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,6) "
[...] Did you configure properly your /etc/fstab file?
Well, /etc/fstab has not yet available when the panic happens since it's on the very filesystem the kernel tries to mount and fails at it. Boovarahan: typically, this error occurs if one of the the following isn't true: - you compiled support for your SATA, IDE or SCSI controller into the kernel (not as module) - you compiled support for the filesystem of the root partition into the kernel (not as module) - the root= option in lilo.conf is correct Please verify these, along with the lilo settings as mentioned in Dannys mail. HTH, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch
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