RE: [LUG] Unable to boot system

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04-Feb-2002 at 10:23:59 Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
> > It failed saying that the root file system wasn't mounted, unable to
> > mount the root file system from '4805' (which it turns out it got from
> > the map file), and then paniced (no oops though).
>
> If looks like something is confuzed as to what is the root
> filesystem.
>
> When you get your lilo prompt... Type:
>
> root="/dev/sda?"
Nope, that made no difference. In this case it was '/dev/ida/c0d0p5'.


John.

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