Hi Do you have correct lilo.conf and valid files for initrd= in that? As per your dmesg output, does it even load Promise Driver succesfully ? Murty On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 stefan.lange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i asked for help by installing redhat 7.2 on asus a7v133. > > I have read murtys howto, but the i cant boot from my /dev/sda1 partition. > Can someone tell me why ??? > > I get always the error message > VFS: Cannot open boot device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > What is the problem ?? > Should i add the append line in /etc/lilo.conf ?? I also tried using dos fdisk instead of linux fdisk. > Also i tried using lilo.2.2.3.. but nothing helps. > > Please i worked now for over one week on this problem. > > Thanx > Stefan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >