Hello again all,
    I've just recently started putting together a Mandrake 8.0 box.  (About 3 hours ago, yes in the middle of the night.)  For a hard drive, I have an IBM SCSI Drive on an Adaptec 2940-U2 card.  When I ran the install, it found the card and the drive automagically.  I was impressed and happy.  Went through the installation fine, copied all the files.  But as soon as I rebooted to run it for the first time, I get the LILO graphical screen, I choose one of the options (any), and get the following error...
 
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS:  Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS:  Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
 
Just some more information.  The HD is on SCSI ID #6.  The controller is on #7.  The SCSI BIOS sees the drive because I can see it report it on boot.  When I watch the boot messages fly by for Linux, I see no reference to any sd# devices at all.
 
I'm really completely lost here.  Would changing the SCSI ID # help?  That doesn't seem to be likely.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx a lot guys/grrls!!
 
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