root is on hdc1 home is on hdc2 winxp/C is on hda1 win98/D is on hdb1 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:34:02 +0000, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net <james(a)dis-dot-dat.net> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 at 04:11PM -0500, guerrier spake thus: > > Hi, > > I installed the 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 kernel via synaptic. and then > > i gave the update-grub coomand. menu.lst was automatically updated; > > this is the new entry: > > > > title aGNUla/DeMuDi, kernel 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > > root (hd2,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 root=/dev/hdc1 ro > > savedefault > > boot > > > > now when i boot, grub launches, i choose 2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7. it > > starts to load and then i get this error: > > > > VFS: cannot open root device 'hdc1" or unknown-block (0-0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel Panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0-0) > > > > I can still boot the 2.4.25 kernel and windowsxp. I also did this, on > > the advice of Free: > > > > # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 (--install) > > cannot access archive: No such file or directory > > error were encountered while processing: > > kernel-image-2.6.10-1-multimedia-k7 > > > > Gustin inquired about initrd.img-2.6.10-1-multimedia. And I found > > that there in no entry in menu.lst about it nor is there such a file > > in /boot directory. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > guerrier > > > > -- > "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development > That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." > (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) >