In short, 'linux' is failing to boot for me on an opteron board. Below is more detail on the problem and a workaround. I have a Tyan S2882 mobo with an adaptec 29320a scsi card. I am getting a kernel failure with the x86_64 disk-1. I've tried numerous linux <options here> at the boot prompt, all with the same result. VFS: cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block(3,2) Please append a correct root= ... The i386 install works fine, so I could install that then upgrade, but I'd like to figure out why this is happening, or if it's happened to anyone else. After searching for a bit, I came upon the following fix as described in Bugzilla Bug 159026. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026 This should be useful for those of you who didn't catch the original author's post. Instead of doing the normal 'linux text' or similar at the boot prompt, try the following: 'linux42' - This will fail. 'linux text' - Repartition drive, then reboot with the steps listed above. (The first run through didn't recognize the new partitions I made.) For some reason this works. Only if you type in a boot message which errors first though. Could someone explain why this works only if you have a previous image load failure? Cheers, Randy http://www.frenzy.org "Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" -Juvenal
