VFS Cannot open root device "303" or unknown-block(3,3) Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(3,3) ================ fdisk -l ============== Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3313 26611641 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 3314 3826 4120672+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda3 3827 4982 9285570 83 Linux =========== /etc/fstab (gentoo) ========= # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail / tail freely. # # The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1. # All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1. # # See the manpage fstab(5) for more information. # # # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 ============= lilo.conf ================ # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="Mandriva" boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/uk.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk label="2612-12" root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="Mandriva" root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-22mdk label="2612-22" root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-22mdk.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/gentoo label="Gentoo" read-only root=/dev/hda3