Re: ReiserFS V3 and linux-kernel-2.6

[Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:05:14AM +0200, Oleg O. Ossovitskii wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
> I run self compiled kernel 2.4.27 w/devfs and want to upgrade to
> 2.6.10 w/devfs. All kernels without using initrd
> 
> /dev/hdc2 - /boot - ext2
> /dev/hdc8 - /     - ReiserFS V3
> 
> gcc 3.4.3, modultils-2.4.21, glibc-2.3.4
> 
> I installed
>   module-init-tools-3.1.tar.bz2
>   sysfsutils-1.1.0.tar.bz2
>   hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.bz2
>   udev-051
> 
>   and all that I found in Changes from kernel-2.6.10
> 
>   In the grub config i have:
> 
>   --------------------------------
>   # For booting GNU/Linux
>   title  GNU/Linux-2.6.x
>   kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc8 rw devfs=mount
> 
>   title  GNU/Linux-2.4.x
>   kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4 root=/dev/hdc8 rw devfs=mount
>  ----------------------------------
> 
>   I can boot into 2.4.x kernel, but when I try to boot to 2.6.10
>   kernel I get error message & kernel panic:
> 
> 
>   VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc8" or unknown-block(0,0)
>   Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>   unknown-block(0,0)

please make sure that the rootfs block device driver (IDE disk) was compiled
into the kernel.  

-- 
Alex.