Re: Kernel Panic - Unable to mount root
I´ve heard many discussions about this, but in my opinion it should
matter whether or not I compiled my fs as a module or not, should it?
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:50:03 -0500, Jason Lewis
<thenightmarecontinues@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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