On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Thanks JA, > > I have posted a couple of updates to this. I am able to login to something > without the x-windows system. But when I cd to /usr/src it's gone no such > file or directory Bad assumption on my part. The .config file is in the directory where your kernel source is. If you had installed your kernel source from deb, the source tree would be in /usr/src. > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org > > From: Jerome Acks Jr [mailto:jracksjr@bellatlantic.net] > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:45 PM > To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org > Subject: Re: Kernel Panic was: System is too Big; son of make menuconfig > > > 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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