On 0, Andy Halper <ashalper@earthlink.net> wrote: > I recently switched from Red Hat to Debian. I installed the 2.4.18 kernel to > be able to mount my old Red Hat ext3 /home disk, but I can't seem to get lilo > to boot it properly. The error message is: > > > > VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-3, errno = 2 > > VFS: cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option So, do you have a valid root= boot option? What root= option are you using? Can you send a relevant slab from lilo.conf? Tom > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > > > The original 2.2.x kernel still boots fine. > > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Andy > > > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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