From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: kernel compilation problem Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:16:44 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FE81D14.7060306@sancharnet.in> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in, gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, I was compiling the 2.4.18 kernel as a practice run and when I booted thru it I recieved a message during boottime: Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:05. any clues why? I run the Debian woody release. also when I boot thru my working kernel, I get a message during boottime: spurious 8259A interrupt : IRQ7 any ideas? thanx in advance, Joy.M.M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs