Re: Kernel Panic - Unable to mount root
Well... if you do things the 'right' way and use initrd. I don't even
bother, I'm running 2.6.10 without initrd... the one thing, though...
I've gotten that same message when my IDE drivers were compiled as
modules and I for got to run make modules_install. I missed that at
first, though, and jsut compiled the IDE drivers into the kernel, and
everything worked fine.
But, yeah... if you compiled initrd support, make sure the initrd.img
is available and is passed to grub or lilo, depending... double check
your modules... it should be one of those problems.
jason
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:21:51 +0200, Hannes Mayer <debiandude@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:09:23 -0500, paul tsai wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > In my recent urge to go back to debian I've encountered errors that
> > I've never seen before on my earlier installs. Previously I've used a
> > 2.6.8 kernel and luckily that was available in sarge. so I used that
> > config and did a
> >
> > make-kpkg --initrd -rev 1 kernel_image
> >
> > and then installed the deb. Upon reboot I received a :
> >
> > Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root
>
> AFAIK and experienced myself, this message appears when the kernel can
> read from the root filesystem due a missing file-system driver. Do you
> pass the initrd line in GRUB ?
> Also look if your root filesystem (ext3 etc..) is either compiled in
> or compiled as module (AFAIK this requires initrd)
>
> Best regards,
> Hannes.
>
>
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