Fei Liu wrote:
>
>> Here is the complete grub.conf file:
>> more /boot/grub/grub.conf
>> default 0
>> timeout 8
>> gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
>>
>> title 2.6.24.4-default
>>   root (hd0,0)
>>   kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
>>
>> /etc/fstab:
>> #/dev/BOOT         /boot       ext2        
>> noauto,noatime 1 2
>> /dev/sda1          /          ext3        
>> noatime      0 1
>> /dev/sda2          none        swap        
>> sw         0 0
>> #/dev/cdrom         /mnt/cdrom    audo        
>> noauto,ro     0 0
>> #/dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy   auto        
>> noauto       0 0
>>
>> shm              /dev/shm     tmpfs      
>> nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0
>>
>> I am looking into the SCSI file system issue.
>>
>> Fei
>>
> Error messages:
> ...
> md: ... autorun DONE
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>
> There is one more thing, this is a vmware machine so the harddrive is
> a scsi harddrive.
>
> Fei
>
I finally found this page and got this stuff to work, the catch is
'vmware' specific feature.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP#Kernel_Options


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