John Hawley wrote: > > I've been playing around with bare-metal backup/recoveries and am getting these > as the last lines on the console on boot: > ... > kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh > ds: no socket drivers loaded! > request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > <hangs> The kernel is trying to mount your root filesystem from your first SCSI hard drive. If your hard drive is a SCSI drive, you probably forgot to compile in the driver for the SCSI controller. If you don't have SCSI drives, then you have to fix your lilo.conf to point to /dev/hda1 or whatever instead of /dev/sda1. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ She did WHAT with WHO for / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ HOW MANY Mini-Oreos? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org