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Heh Dialore is right i think
your SuSE partition is allegedly on the same HDD as Gentoo (or the other way round) UNLESS you are trying to boot of the Gentoo boot partition into SuSE, in which case i'd have to say i don't think that will work. But i don't know for sure. Even then though, the root would still be wrong though.
That's kind of what I was doing. My gentoo, though is on hda and SUSE on hdb and I was trying to use Gentoo's bootloader on the /boot partition to boot into the / SUSE partition and system which is on hdb, again.
I was unaware this was not possible, how do I get two Linux systems multiboot? Do I have to have SUSE's own bootloader? How do I install GRUB for SUSE without ruining the Gentoo one?
Hi
I also facing the same problem i.e. "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda1" message on startup. It reads the dmesg and hangs saying "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda1" message on startup. In ctrl+x or say single user mode also getting the same error. What could be the reason ?
I have Red Hat linux 9.0 version.
Quote:
Originally Posted by PhuckFonix
I get a "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hdb1" message on startup.
I just installed SUSE 9.1 Personal without a bootloader because I figured I'd use Gentoo's boot loader.
What could be the problem?
Here's /boot/grub/grub.conf ( /boot is a seperate 32MB partition as per Gentoo handbook)
Code:
default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/grub/linuxinside.xpm.gz
# _Boot_ Partition is hda7 and ~Root~ Partition is hda8
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.7-r14
root (hd0,6)
kernel /kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r14 root=/dev/hda8
# / is hdb1
title=SUSE 9.1 Personal
root (hd0,6)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.4-52-default root=/dev/hdb1
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