Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

[Giuseppe Lavagetto <lavaget@fisica.unipa.it>]

Il giorno gio, 13-01-2005 alle 00:15 +0100, Nicolas Lebas ha scritto:
> The error message is :
> "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(0,0)"
> 
> 

I hope Guillame's advices can help you in rebooting in your linux box
succesfully. 

I'll add my two cents:

The kernel panic you see is due to a missing kernel component in order
to mount one of your filesystems.

There are several things that can go wrong: for instance

1) You did not include the support for your filesystem in the kernel.

2) You have compiled the support of your filesystem as a module. In this
case you should build the initrd and pass the initrd= option to yaboot
(just add it in yaboot.conf and do ybin).

3) You did all the required steps I listed above, but did not include
initial ramdisk support and/or cramfs support in your monolithic kernel.
In this case, the kernel will not be able to read modules from the
ramdisk.

I hope this can help you

Giuseppe
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Giuseppe Lavagetto <lavaget@fisica.unipa.it>
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche - Università di Palermo