Thus spake Charles Baker: > > --- Xeno Campanoli <xeno@eskimo.com> wrote: > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the > > diagnostic: > > > > > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > > on 01:00 > > > > > > > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. > > I've tried several > > > > things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev > > indicates the root > > > > partition is /dev/hda1, which is what I expect, > > and I seem to have good > > > > lilo entries, as follows: > > > > > > > > image=/vmlinuz > > > > label=Linux > > > > read-only > > > > initrd=/boot/initrd > > > > Okay, you were right about initrd. I took that > > out and it > > works. Thank you. > > > <<SNIP>> > > Now, I'm really confused. I haven't been able to get > any of the 2.4.x debian kernel packages to boot and > everything I had read previously in the list archives > indicated that the initrd line was necessary for 2.4.x > kernels. I never had any problems with 2.0.x or 2.2.x > kernels. Not _necessary_ but an option. I personally don't use the initrd method with my kernels, as I found the boost in boot time to be negligable and therefor more trouble than it was worth, but I don't use the make-kpkg method, it may be easier. You can use it or not, is what I have found - neither is 'The Right Way'(TM) although the make-kpkg way is 'The Dbian Way'(TM) and I am _not_ advising against, just throwing in my 2¢. HTH, Steve -- Boucher's Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music several octaves higher than originally written.
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