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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Debian load help
From: "Matt Pankratz" <mattp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:49:22 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx 
John Goerzen said:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:41:30PM -0600, Matt Pankratz wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm trying to load Debian on a SUN Netra T1 200
>>
>> I get part way through the install and it blows off with:
>>
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00
>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>
> Looks like you don't need a boot= option but rather a root= one, giving
> the location of the root filesystem for the installer.  From the logs of
> it, you could say root=/dev/hda and get the right thing.  My guess would
> be that it just needs the path to your CD-ROM drive.

No joy.

I set the root option to /dev/hda and I still get the VFS error.

Any other ideas?

:)


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