On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Herbert [iso-8859-1] Pötzl wrote:

> > hdg: max request size 128 KiB
> > hdg: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/467KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63,
> > UDMA(33)
> >         hdg: hdg1
> > hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.31
> > hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM ....
> > Console ...
> > ...
> > blabla
> > ...
> > VFS: cannot mount ...

Are you using an initrd image and if so, are you using the new
initrd-tools?  I was having this problem before upgrading
initrd-tools. 2.6 does not support compressed ROM initrd images, so
even though it sees your partitions it can't load the _initial_ root.

mwa
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