Thanks. I overlooked the obvious. The system I brought the archive over from had an ide subsystem and I thought I had enabled all the scsi stuff when I recompiled knowing I'd need it later, but forgot to actually drill down into the scsi driver section. I didn't think of it since the lilo did find the boot block on sda and started the load. -jh Mike Hicks wrote: > John Hawley wrote: > > > > I've been playing around with bare-metal backup/recoveries and am getting these > > as the last lines on the console on boot: > > ... > > kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh > > ds: no socket drivers loaded! > > request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted > > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > <hangs> > > The kernel is trying to mount your root filesystem from your first SCSI > hard drive. If your hard drive is a SCSI drive, you probably forgot to > compile in the driver for the SCSI controller. If you don't have SCSI > drives, then you have to fix your lilo.conf to point to /dev/hda1 or > whatever instead of /dev/sda1. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ She did WHAT with WHO for > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ HOW MANY Mini-Oreos? > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- John Hawley // Network Admin Billy Graham Evang. Assoc. 612.335.1334 jhawley at bgea.org