From: Eric <eric@cisu.net>
To: gracecott@sancharnet.in
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel error?
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 15:59:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401011559.17882.eric@cisu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF056EC.6020002@sancharnet.in>
On Monday 29 December 2003 10:31 am, joy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just compiled my new 2.6 kernel and when I boot thru it, I get an
> error saying:
> VFS : cannot open root device "345" or unknown-block (3,69)
> OK.so I give an argument roo=/dev/hdb5 (that's my root partiton, I get
> the message
> VFS : cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0)
> anyone with an answer?
> My old kernel worked fine w/o any lilo args.
> and used to refer to my hdd as (03:05) when I had it as hda.
>
Go through make menuconfig again, (or the kernel config you used) and make
sure you have support compiled in (not as a module (M) ) to the kernel for
both your hard drive controller and the filesystem you are mounting as your
root fs. ex. if your root FS is reiserfs, its imperiive you compile in
reiserfs support.
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Eric Bambach
Eric at cisu dot net
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2003-12-29 16:31 kernel error? joy
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