Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 19980919152857.A2532@debian>,  <matt@debian.debian.org> wrote:
>     VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
>     Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01

Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You
did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support
for the ext2 filesystem?

>    make modules
>    make modules_install
>    cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
>    lilo

You might want to cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.34. "ps" uses
this ("l" option) and klogd to decode OOPSes if you get one.

Mike.
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