can't boot without "root=..." on kernel cmdline

[Guest section DW]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:14:53PM +0100, almesber en lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > umm. The last time I got this type of error it was because I had just gotten
> > my SCSI controler and copied the kernel to the new disk from an IDE system
> > disk....
> 
> Then it would have said something like
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
> not
> VFS: Cannot open root device 00:80
> 
> No, this doesn't look like the average mis-configuration.

Indeed. When I saw this, my first idea was overflow of some area,
so that rootdev was overwritten. Specifying it explicitly on
the command line would then fix things.

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