From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Hulin Thibaud <hulin.thibaud@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, darkhack@gmail.com
Subject: Re: kernel panic - not syncing: VFS - unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:51:04 +0159 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E08DEF.4030607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E08C50.5070904@wanadoo.fr>
Hulin Thibaud wrote:
> Sorry, new kernel is 2.6.17. to install suspend2.
> I believe using LVM, but I'm not sure.
see
/dev/mapper/*
lvm(8) and lvdisplay, vgdisplay, pvdisplay...
mount(8) output
> In effect, initrd is not present ! I rode this lines in my menu.lst :
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.171915
> root (hd1,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.171915 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet splash
> savedefault
> boot
>
> So, I suppose that's the center of the problem, but actually, I don't
> know how to solve it.
You need to run mkinitrd with appropriate parameters on created initrd dir.
See a small howto here:
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/Kernel-Build-HOWTO/en/x543.html
or use google (and man) to find out howto involve mkinitrd.
regards,
--
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-14 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 1:17 kernel panic - not syncing: VFS - unable to mount root fs on unknown-block Hulin Thibaud
2006-08-14 1:33 ` Nick Manley
2006-08-14 13:32 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-14 14:44 ` Hulin Thibaud
2006-08-14 14:52 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2006-08-14 14:52 ` Reinaldo Carvalho
2006-08-14 19:46 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-14 18:06 ` Phillip Susi
2006-08-14 21:15 ` Hulin Thibaud
2006-08-14 21:35 ` Jiri Slaby
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