Re: New kernel problems
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> > > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43
> > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
> > >
> > > I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice?
> > >
> > I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the
> > kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have
> > 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' &
> > 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes.
>
> Nope... it as long as I can read the signs, the IDE device was found, so the problem
> seems to be that the e2sf (second extended file system) was either left aside or
> created as a module during the krenel creation... Run make menuconfig again and check
> this out in the ¨filesystems¨ part... the second extended filesystem MUST be created
> as part of the kernel (otherwise, how would the kernel open the e2fs filesystem to
> read the modules? ;-)
>
This is the mistake I made the first time around. I then rebuilt the
kernel with e2fs built-in, but got the same error message.
I'll try Paul's suggestion tonight, though.
Dan.
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