Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Erratic boot behavior: cannot mount root device

[Carl <ca...@re...>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:24:50 -0500
"Jerome Henin" <he...@gm...> wrote:

> 1) LILO does not get any keyboard input. The only way I could interact
> with the LILO menu was plugging in an external USB keyboard, which
> made the internal one work! Anyway, once the right kernel is setup,
> this is only a minor annoyance.

Same problem here. I switched to grub because lilo didn't seem to
handle any input at all but it still doesn't work all the time, whether
I have an external keyboard or not.

On a related topic, even after startup some key presses are ignored.
This only seems to happen in X. When I change window focus my next 2 key
presses are ignored. Very annoying. Not sure whether it's hardware
related.

> 2) On boot, I get these messages:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs, etc.
> I would think there is something wrong with the partition table or the
> initrd if this was systematic, but it isn't. Sometimes it boots
> straight away, and if I just keep rebooting eventually it works. I
> would think it is a pure hardware problem, but MacOS never has any
> trouble booting.

Yes, that too. I thought it was something to do with suspend2 since I
usually get a warning saying (more or less) "suspend=/dev/sda4 can't be
found, press space to reboot or C to continue". If I continue I
immediately get a kernel panic as you describe. A reboot always works
fine.

No ideas at the moment.

Regards,

-- 
Carl