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Old 03-06-2008, 03:03 PM
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Default Re: External drive, installed Slackware & the panicked kernel

On Feb 28, 7:07 pm, KAdwhammy <jgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "VFS: Cannot open root device '812' or unknown-block(8, 18)
> Please append a correct 'root=' boot option
> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
> block(8, 18)"
>
> The process freezes at this point.


Try booting with rootdelay=10 at the lilo prompt.
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