On 22 May, this message from Torben Brosten echoed through cyberspace:
Next line, am getting this error:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:0b
VFS? What does that refer to?
That's the abstraction layer just above the different filesystems,
unifying for the layers still above that need to access files.
03:0b is the block device (in hex), i.e. block device major 3, minor
0xb=11. That would be /dev/hda11. Is that your root partition?
I've tried setting Module, compiled in kernel, and 'not set'
variations of:
That's not the problem here. Your root partition is probably EXT2, so
leave that compiled-in. Others are optional and not needed for the root
partition.
CONFIG_TMPFS (VFS = Virtual file system?)
Na. Has nothing to with this.
CONFIG_EXT2_FS (
Leave this one compiled-in.
CONFIG_HFS_FS (for a MacOS 9.x partition)
This is dangerous. It may be OK for reading, but don't attempt writing
to it.
I'm trying to use Ext3 (CONFIG_EXT3_FS). Chose 'install24' from the
debian install program.
Your error message (if it's the only message) indicates something
fundamentally wrong, like specifying the wrong root partition in
yaboot.conf.