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by max98037

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I am trying to install Red Hat 7 and I am a complete Linux newbie.
After installing, at the first linux boot I get the error message.
"Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
03:05"
What does this mean? How can I tell linux where the rootfs is? How do I find out where my root fs is?

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by rapidad

What does 03:05 mean? Where can I change it (if it is needed)?

Well it says everything in the messages...
03:05 means "hda5" (03 is the major device
number and means hda or hdb,and05 is the
minor device number and means fifth partition
on hda, hdb partitions begins at 65
(hdb = 03:64 and hdb1 = 03:65))
You can change it on the LILO prompt
by appending the "root=" option to your
kernel image, for example:
LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb2

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