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cheetahman
07-07-2006, 03:20 PM
Cannot open root devce "hda7" or uknown-block (0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel Panic - not syncing :VFS:Unable to mount root fs on uknown-block (0,0)

dkeav
07-07-2006, 04:25 PM
did you compile support for you filesystem

and did you remember to edit your /etc/grub.conf properly AND! to use udev filenames not devfs filenames in your fstab/grub.conf

cheetahman
07-07-2006, 04:51 PM
what is an example of udev

dkeav
07-07-2006, 05:14 PM
why dont you post your grub and fstab configs for us

cheetahman
07-07-2006, 09:41 PM
Changed it but now I boots but I get this line at the end and it freezes

Emulex Light Pulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.1
Copyright (c) 2004-2005 Emulex All Rights Reserved

There are two /boot partitions one for SUSE which has the GRUB files and one for Arch which has the kernel and initrd would I remove the /boot and set it up like this

title Arch Linux 0.7.2 "Gimmick"
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda7 ro vga=791
initrd /initrd26.img