I've been playing around with bare-metal backup/recoveries and am getting these as the last lines on the console on boot: ... kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh ds: no socket drivers loaded! request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 <hangs> Any ideas on what this means? This is kernel 2.3.99-pre9. I've briefly described the scenerio below. I've also done the same scenerio with a bare-bones Debian 2.1 installation with the 2.2.12 kernel and that recovery worked fine! I've played around with different combinations of boot= and root= options in lilo.conf and with flagging and unflagging the fdisk 'bootable' flag on sda1. Can't seem to get it. Is this some difference between the kernel versions or a bug in this kernel or what might I be doing wrong? Thanks for any insight. -John ################################################################### <skips over boring details of creating tar archive, burning to cd, blowing away test system, booting recovery diskette, fdisk'ing, mke2fs'ing, etc> #cd / (on ramdisk created by rescue floppy) #mkdir root #mount /dev/sda1 root ... untar the archive to the reformatted harddrive. #cd /root check /root/etc/fstab check /root/etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 delay=20 image=/vmlinuz4 label=linux read-only # chroot /root /sbin/lilo ... this works; says 'added linux'; etc ... machine boots ok, but hangs #################################################################### -- John Hawley Network Administrator IT Services // BGEA 612.335.1334 <=> jhawley at bgea.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org