From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261305AbVGRLOb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261350AbVGRLOb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:14:31 -0400 Received: from aeimail.aei.ca ([206.123.6.84]:12503 "EHLO aeimail.aei.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261305AbVGRLOa (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:14:30 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Fawad Lateef Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:14:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: "porranenhuma@globo.com" , Norbert van Nobelen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200507171016.37940.norbert@edusupport.nl> <428C48BA000CBFCB@riosf03.globoi.com> <1e62d13705071719462d437a21@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1e62d13705071719462d437a21@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507180714.41939.tomlins@cam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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