More on unable to boot

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:31:16PM +0300, Andy Jarvis wrote:

> I ran the recovery boot option and found the additional lines shown
> below preceeding the Kernel Panic message:
>  
> VFS: Cannot open root device “hda5” or unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append a correct “root=” boot option
>  
> For completeness, the section of my Grub menu.lst normally invoked and
> which first resulted in this problem reads:
>  
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-k7 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash
> savedefault
> boot

The initrd command is missing.  Did you edit this file by hand?

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 - mdz