Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
Basically, if my /boot/vmlinuz image exceeds a certain size (the limit seems be
somewhere around 900000 bytes), the following occurs on boot:
hdc6: bad access: block=2, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 2
EXT3-fs: Unable to read superblock
hdc6: bad access: block=2, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 2
EXT2-fs: Unable to read superblock
hdc6: bad access: block=0, count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 0
NTFS: Reading super block failed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06
While some googling revealed that I'm certainly not the only one being hit by
this particular type of kernel panic, I found no solutions that seemed
applicable to my situation.
This has happened with 2.4.19, 2.4.20-pre10, and now 2.4.20-ck1, all compiled
from kernel.org sources (ck1 from
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/).
I have not tested any 2.4-kernel prior to 2.4.19.
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