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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
To: Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>
Cc: "porranenhuma@globo.com" <porranenhuma@globo.com>,
	Norbert van Nobelen <norbert@edusupport.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:14:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507180714.41939.tomlins@cam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e62d13705071719462d437a21@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:46, Fawad Lateef wrote:
> I saw this prob when my boot device/partition in the bootloader config
> was wrong or the filesystem of my root partition is not compiled as a
> kernel image rather compiled as module, so plz try to solve this prob
> by selecting your desired filesystem in kernel configuration as Y
> rather than M ...... I hope this will work

One further tip.  Make your root FS's type the only one that is not a module.
Once you have it booting then, if you want, flip other FSes to in kernel.

Ed Tomlinson

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-18 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200507171016.37940.norbert@edusupport.nl>
2005-07-18  0:27 ` Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device porranenhuma
2005-07-18  2:46   ` Fawad Lateef
2005-07-18 11:14     ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
2005-07-16 20:57 GlupFire
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-16  8:41 GlupFire

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