Re: unable to boot 2.6.7 on sarge

[Jason Martens <me@jasonmartens.com>]

Robert Van Horn wrote:
> Hi,	Not sure this qualifies as a
> debian-testing issue but here goes. Installed
> sarge from the latest netinstall iso. Machine is
> supermicro u2 with adaptec 320 scsi card.
> Boots ok. Now, compiled 2.6.7 to get smp but 
> the problem is after the initrd.img file loads
> I get the message:
>
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root file system on unknown-block 0,0
>
> My guess is there is something wrong with the way I created
> the initrd.img. Used mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7 -r /dev/sda2 2.6.7

Have you tried using the Debian kernel builder? Try "man make-kpkg".

Jason