Cannot open root device

[luciddreamer]

I am fairly new to linux and want to learn it so much. But here is my dilema. I just installed winlinux on my system. Everything registered how it should. I have two hard drives. Windows is on one and the other one I just use to put files on. So I installed winlinux on my d: drive..Now on rebooting into winlinux I get an error at the end:

Vfs: cannot open root device sbd1 or 08:11
please append correct root boot options
kernal panic vfs unable to mount root fs on 08:11

And my hard drive config is.
hda: hda1 [0b]
sdb: sdb1 [0c]

hda1 = c drive
sbd1 = d drive

Is there anyone who knows what all this means. And how to fix it.. I've looked around for the solution. And I just keep getting more questions..

Thanks

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by luciddreamer

Vfs: cannot open root device sbd1 or 08:11


Is sbd1 a typo? It should be sdb1.

What bootloader does Winlinux use and where did you install the bootloader? Could you please post the bootloader config so we can have a look?

Lilo - /etc/lilo.conf

Grub - /boot/grub/menu.lst

[DMR]

The "s" in "sdb2" indicates that your system thinks that your second drive is a SCSI drive; that might be part of the problem.

** Is the second drive on one of the normal built-in IDE channels, or is it on an accellerator/expansion card? Tell us exactly where on your IDE or SCSI chain the drive is physically installed.


I'm not familiar with winlinux, but if you can boot into some sort of "rescue" mode from a boot floppy or installation CD, do so. From there:

- Locate your bootloader's configuration file as Mike (mdwatts) suggested and post the contents of it for us to examine.

- At a command prompt, type the following command and post the result:

fdisk -l (<-- the " l " is a lowercase "L")

- If possible, post the contents of your boot-time log files. To view them, run the following 2 commands:

less /var/log/messages
dmesg