RE: I Need Help Getting A Custom Kernel To Boot

["Patrick Kirchner" <obecalp@ameritech.net>]

> From: Kathy Wills [mailto:kathywills@brannanorwills.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:46 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: I Need Help Getting A Custom Kernel To Boot
> 
> I have been trying for three days now to get my own kernel to 
> boot using Debian. I've customized an lot of kernels in the 
> past and don't remember ever having this much trouble. Would 
> someone please take a look at what I have and tell me what 
> I'm missing. I keep getting a kernel panic when I try to boot 
> into my kernel. The stock Debian Kernels boot just fine. A 
> copy of my kernel configuration can be seen at 
> http://www.brannanorwills.com/kernel-config .
> The kernel panic says:
> "not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow block(0,0).
> Here is the result of lspci from a working kernel:
> Please let me know if you need any more information.
> Kathy Wills

Kathy,

Make sure you have ext3 support compiled into the kernel, not as a module,
also be sure not to use an initrd image line in your lilo or grub config
file.

Patrick.