On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 01:02, Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote:
Hello all...
I'm a newbie struggling along trying to learn about recompiling my kernel (SuSE 8.1, 2.4.19). I've recompiled several times and most recently I spent considerable time being bold with "make xconfig" trying to eliminate all the unnecessary stuff I could.
Well, apparently I checked "n" to at least one too many choices!
After finding my ethernet card, several "md" lines, and some NET4 and TCP lines on the console during boot, it stops at the line:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
Can anyone give me a clue as to what I need to put back into the compilation configuration? (Yes, I can still reboot using my old kernel.)
Don
You may be on a reiserfs or some other file system.
/etc/sysconfig/kernel will have a INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs etc etc".
After recompiling, you must do mkinitrd to include this module for the
filesystem into the initrd in order for it to boot properly. I have
made this error several times, but cannot remember how I got back to the
system in order to do the mkinitrd. Maybe someone else can jump in here
with that information.
--
Ed Harrison