From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Zarochentsev Subject: Re: ReiserFS V3 and linux-kernel-2.6 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:56:26 +0300 Message-ID: <20050209155626.GL7482@backtop.namesys.com> References: <139119350.20050209110514@kgpa.ru> <20050209144446.GK7482@backtop.namesys.com> <8510493009.20050209170924@kgpa.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8510493009.20050209170924@kgpa.ru> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Oleg O. Ossovitskii" Cc: ReiserFS-List On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:09:24PM +0200, Oleg O. Ossovitskii wrote: > Hello, Alex! > > Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 4:44:46 PM, you wrote: > > >> > >> -------------------------------- > >> # 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) > > AZ> please make sure that the rootfs block device driver (IDE disk) was compiled > AZ> into the kernel. can you try to following? 1) boot w/o devfs 2) check that the block device driver is loaded successfully and partition table is read properly (look at kernel boot messages) btw, I have no troubles switching my system between 2.4.x and 2.6.x -- Alex.