[slackintosh-users] Re: Befuddling new install issue

Hi James,

> VFS cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown block (0,0)

* is hdb5 the correct root-partition?
  If it isn't: append 'root=/dev/hdXY' while booting
* Did you compile-in support for MAC-IDE Controllers
  and your rootfilesystem?
  (Slackintosh doesn't use an initrd while booting)

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