cannt open root device ?

Hello everybody :
I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but
I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from
the google and the archive .
So I came here !

And my problem is that :
I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk
.. I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but
when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :
VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option

But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3

I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .

Thanks in advance !

Best Regard !




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Re: cannt open root device ?

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Bo Yang wrote:

> I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but
> I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from
> the google and the archive .
> So I came here !
>
> And my problem is that :
> I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk
> . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but
> when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :
> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
> But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3
>
> I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .

This is actually a VMware question more than a Linux question. They have
a user forum: have you tried posting about your problem there? I have a
little bit of experience with VMware, but you don't provide enough
information for me to take a stab at what the problem might be. First, is
this a virtual disk or are you trying to use an actual scsi hardware disk
for your Gentoo install? I have no expereince with using a real disk or
partition for the guest OS, only with virtual disks. So I might not be
able to help with that anyway. If it's a virtual partition I can't
understand why you would specify it as /dev/sda3. I've always put OS's on
the first partition of the virtual disk. VMware presents these virtual
disks to the host OS as scsi disks, so my experience has always been with
systems installed to /dev/sda1. Did you partition the (virtual?) disk and
put /home and swap or something on the other 2 partitions? Anyway, I'm
not even sure I can help. Probably best to try the VMware forums.

James
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Re: cannt open root device ?

> This is actually a VMware question more than a Linux question. They
> have a user forum: have you tried posting about your problem there? I
> have a little bit of experience with VMware, but you don't provide
> enough information for me to take a stab at what the problem might
> be. First, is this a virtual disk or are you trying to use an actual
> scsi hardware disk for your Gentoo install? I have no expereince with
> using a real disk or partition for the guest OS, only with virtual disks.
It is a scsi virtual disk , and VM display it as '' Hard Disk 1:
(SCSI 0:0)"
> So I might not be able to help with that anyway. If it's a virtual
> partition I can't understand why you would specify it as /dev/sda3.
> I've always put OS's on the first partition of the virtual disk.
> VMware presents these virtual disks to the host OS as scsi disks, so
> my experience has always been with systems installed to /dev/sda1.
> Did you partition the (virtual?) disk and put /home and swap or
> something on the other 2 partitions? Anyway, I'm not even sure I can
> help. Probably best to try the VMware forums.
And I have partition the disk for 4 part .
/dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs
/dev/sda2 swap swap
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs
/dev/sda4 /usr reiserfs

So I tell the lilo to mount the root file system in the partition
/dev/sda3 , is it wrong ?

Thank you for your reply !
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Re: cannt open root device ?

Hi,

I'm not sure but maby you don't have the correct modules to manage the
disk emulated by VMware in the initrd. I have a FC4 installed on a
vmware machine with SCSI disk and I need that initrd loads this modules
to wark fine: scsi_mod, sd_mod, mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi. Without this
modules the kernel can't manage the disk and it can't create the root
device to do the switchroot.

I hope it can help you.

Good Luck!!

Juanjo



El vie, 31-03-2006 a las 13:50 +0800, Bo Yang escribió:
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> /dev/sda2 swap swap
> /dev/sda3 / reiserfs
> /dev/sda4 /usr reiserfs
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> So I tell the lilo to mount the root file system in the partition=20
> /dev/sda3 , is it wrong ?
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> Thank you for your reply !
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Re: cannt open root device ?

I would second what's been said about the VM ware forums, and add that the
Gentoo Forums might also provide more relevant help to the Gentoo specific
items. Also here's an article on Gentoo & VM ware:
http://www.linuxdig.com/news_page/1082673701.php

-- David

On Thursday 30 March 2006 21:48, Bo Yang wrote:
> Hello everybody :
> I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but
> I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from
> the google and the archive .
> So I came here !
>
> And my problem is that :
> I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk
> . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but
> when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :
> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unkonw-block(8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
> But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3
>
> I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Best Regard !
>
>
>
>
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