On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:21:18AM +0530, Deboo said > Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS: > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I > recompile. I do not have module init tools installed. Then you can't use modules AT ALL with your 2.6 kernel. > Installing module-init-tools says that it conflicts with modutils ... > the doc for 2.6 says that they can co-exist. Now what's happenning > here? The module-init-tools package you have is broken, or you didn't install it properly. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-2 main contrib non-free then run "apt-get update" and "apt-get install module-init-tools". Then remove the line and "apt-get update" again. > How do I compile and install kernel 2.6? If you've never compiled a kernel before, why do you want to start right now? > Is there any good resources/articles about 2.6 ? http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: counter terrorism Verisign offensive information warfare SSL
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