On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:05:31AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > OK, now I've done it! > > I followed the instructions below and everything seemed to go without > problems. I installed the new kernel package also without problems (it did > seem to go very fast?) and then made a floppy disk and then rebooted to end > up on a frozen screen ending with this message: > > ...root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "307" or 03:07 > Please append a correct "Root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root FS on 03:07 Your probably have not configure the kernel properly for your root file system. Check /usr/src/linux/.config and make sure you have these settings: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_[Whatever_your_root_file_system_is]_FS=y If you have the IDE and root file system configure as modules, you will need to use an initrd.img to boot. -- Jerome
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