Re: kernel panic

[Michael Thaler <michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:01:36AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:

> Thanks!  I tried reading up on this devfs thing and found something that got 
> me a little closer:
> LILO: linux root=/dev/ide/part5
> resulted in:
> VFS: mounted root (cramfs filesystem)
> Waiting for 5 sseconds, press ENTER to obtain a shell
> modprobe: Can't locate module ext2 <<I know this is *BAD*>>
> Kernel panic:  I have no root and I want to scream
> 
> I love the kernel messaging!  But not the message.
> I suppose at this point I have to figure out what happened to my modules, or 
> what my kernel thinks I did with my modules.
> Question:  In order for this kernel to compile, I had to remove the 
> modversions portion (keep track of modules by kernel version) which I've 
> never seen before.
> Where is is trying to find the modules?
> /lib/modules/ instead of /lib/modules/2.4.9/ ?

I am not using devfs on my computer but you should probably install
the devfsd package which creates the necessary symlinks on /dev so
that software that uses the regular devices under /dev still works
correctly.

Greetings,
Michael