Vishal, try specifying "root=/your/rootdevice" at the bootprompt. That's easy. Failing that here's more: 1. Run "lilo" , if you are using lilo. 2. Maybe you forgot to do mkinitrd, for loading reiser or other modules needed for filesystemaccess. HTH. Regards Dan Ps: By the way, for more comfortable kernel configure, try : make xconfig. Pps: Read the fine manual :-) Am Freitag, 31. Januar 2003 08:19 schrieb Vishal Khanna:

Hi a.I just tried to compile the complete Suse 8.1 kernel after going through the layers of questions ( is there no file which contains the details of these flags) after adding a bigphysarea patch to the kernel.

Did a build .. installed the new kernel

At Boot I get the following error:

Kernel Panic:

-- VFS: Unable to mount root FS 08:33

Please help.. Vishal

THANKS All.. I forgot the say "yes" for the Reiserfs.. Martijn van den Burg wrote:

On Friday 31 January 2003 08:19, Vishal Khanna wrote: [...]

...

At Boot I get the following error:

Kernel Panic:

-- VFS: Unable to mount root FS 08:33

Did you compile support for the root filesystem type into the kernel? E.g. if your root filesystem is Reiserfs then that must be compiled into the kernel.

Martijn

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Martijn van den Burg writes:

On Friday 31 January 2003 08:19, Vishal Khanna wrote: [...]

...

At Boot I get the following error:

Kernel Panic:

-- VFS: Unable to mount root FS 08:33

Did you compile support for the root filesystem type into the kernel? E.g. if your root filesystem is Reiserfs then that must be compiled into the kernel.

Root filesystem doesn't have to be compiled into the kernel, it may be compiled as a module. The following is from a system which uses reiserfs: $ zcat /proc/config.gz|grep -i reiserfs CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR_USER=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y $ grep INITRD /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="3w-xxxx reiserfs ide-scsi" $ egrep '/\W' /etc/fstab /dev/sda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se