Re: [Xen-devel] VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

[Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you building DevFS into the XenU kernel?  If so, don't...  If not, are you 
using the Gentoo initrd so that udev will work?

Cheers,
Mark

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:35, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > What distro are you running in the domain?
>
> gentoo.  same as dom0. I used the instructions in the documentation to
> make a clone of the base system on the lvm partition.
>
> just a little bit more information when I actually have the root =
> /dev/sda1 in place, the failure is:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(8,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(8,1)
>
> I am assuming that since root is a command line option for a kernel
> invocation, that the path it refers to is from the perspective of inside
> the kernel which means the disk translation is in place.
>
> ---eric


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