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by **Adarsh Kudesi** » Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:00:00

After clean installation fo LinuxPPC 2000 on iMac DV, I booted with
"LinuxPPC", getting this error:

Cannot open root Device
Kernel panic: VFX: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Any clue?

Adarsh Kudesia

Ottawa

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by **Tim R** » Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> After clean installation fo LinuxPPC 2000 on iMac DV, I booted with
> "LinuxPPC", getting this error:

> Cannot open root Device
> Kernel panic: VFX: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

> Any clue?

> Adarsh Kudesia

> Ottawa

the root filesystem is the one that gets mounted as /
this is probably set in bootx to something bogus, so check that.

by **Dirk Heinrich** » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> After clean installation fo LinuxPPC 2000 on iMac DV, I booted with
> "LinuxPPC", getting this error:

> Cannot open root Device
> Kernel panic: VFX: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

08:01 is the major:minor device number of /dev/hda1, the first partition
on the first ide drive. Did you install Linux to that partition? If not,
specify the right partition in bootx with root=/dev/hdXY, where X is the
drive and Y the partition.

Bye...

Dirk

by **Michael Schmit** » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> > After clean installation fo LinuxPPC 2000 on iMac DV, I booted with
> > "LinuxPPC", getting this error:

> > Cannot open root Device
> > Kernel panic: VFX: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
> 08:01 is the major:minor device number of /dev/hda1, the first partition
> on the first ide drive. Did you install Linux to that partition? If not,
> specify the right partition in bootx with root=/dev/hdXY, where X is the
> drive and Y the partition.

If it's indeed the attempting to mount the first partition on a disk
with Apple partition format, this is utterly bogus. Partition 1 is the
partition table... the next two or four are driver partitions. Another
one might be occupied by the patch partition. First data partition on my
IDE drive is hda7.

BTW in my book 08:01 is sda1.

Michael

by **Dirk Heinrich** » Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> BTW in my book 08:01 is sda1.

Oops, you're right. /dev/hda1 would be 03:01.

Bye...

Dirk

Very Computer

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01