Re: Kernel Panic - Unable to mount root
In theory? No, it should not... actually, though, this prompts
something I was curious about... my theory about why this theoretical
non-probloem becomes a problem in practice is that: the bootloader
knows how to load the compressed kernel image. The module autoloader,
however, needs to read modules.conf and /lib/modules/* from the root
filesystem, but in order to do this, the filesystem needs to be
mounted, no? I could be missing somethign about the kernel init
process, but this was my feeling about this problem. Does anybody know
better?
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:32:17 -0500, paul tsai <paultsai@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>
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