From: "Steve Iribarne (GMail)" <netstv@gmail.com>
To: "Chris Dumoulin" <cdumoulin@ics-ltd.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device ...
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:39:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4b98b690606081139u516c0fc0p415fd0452c3f6d0c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44885C45.7020009@ics-ltd.com>
On 6/8/06, Chris Dumoulin <cdumoulin@ics-ltd.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to port a 2.6 kernel to a V2Pro-based board that I've got. I
> get the following output when trying to boot:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" 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)
What boot loader are you using? In the boot loader where does it
think the root fs is located? My guess is /dev/ram0 or something like
that?
So I'd check your ramdisk to see that it has a /dev/ram0.
Make sure you have rights to it.
-stv
>
> I'm trying to use an initrd RAMDISK, and I've made sure that RAMDISK and
> initrd support are both enabled in the kernel configuration. Any ideas
> would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Dumoulin
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2006-06-08 17:20 VFS: Cannot open root device Chris Dumoulin
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