On Sunday 04 August 2002 06:24 am, Anders Johansson wrote:

"Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:07"

When you say you edited lilo.conf it makes me a little curious, since normally you don't have to do that when you use suse's rpms. Could you post your lilo.conf, and also indicate how you created your initial ramdisk (ie. what parameters you used with mk_initrd)?

Thank you, Anders, kindly :) I ran MK_INITRD without parameters [ presumably default was used ] My current kernel was compiled by me, from source. The RPM kernel that I am trying to install is called VMLINUZ the kernel rpm is called :- k%5fdeflt_2.4.18-231_i386.rpm { I suspect, that, /etc/sysconfig/kernel which contains, only : INITRD_MODULES = "reiserfs" maybe also needs module "ide-scsi" } This is my /etc/lilo.conf :- ......................................... # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Aug 2 18:36:13 2002 # LILO configuration file # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash, # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option # restricted. #password=bootpwd #restricted append = enableapic boot = /dev/hda # disk = /dev/scd0 #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. lba32 vga = normal message = /boot/message menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg read-only prompt timeout = 100 image = /boot/sus8_080202 # image = /boot/vmlinuz label = sus80 optional root = /dev/hda7 image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 optional image = /boot/sus8_062502 label = sus8_rsv root = /dev/hda6 other = /dev/hda2 label = win2k table = /dev/hda ..................................... Thanks a ton :) { btw, this morning I saw a couple of List e-mails suggesting that, maybe, Mr. Hubert Mantel's recent default kernels may have overlooked something? } best wishes ____________ sent on SuSE 8 Linux ____________

On Sunday 04 August 2002 08:18 am, Anders Johansson wrote: image = /boot/sus8_080202 # image = /boot/vmlinuz label = sus80 optional root = /dev/hda7 ________________ The Name I gave to "bzImage" compiled from kernel Source is : image = /boot/sus8_080202 Just below that, is, Hashed-Out, "image=/boot/vmlinuz" { Hashed-Out by me, after it failed to load.

edit, but the entry for the kernel in the rpm needs

initrd=/boot/initrd

THIS looks like "My_Problem" ! .....................

Also note that if you renamed the kernel before you ran mk_initrd it won't have created an initrd for it. In that case you need to explicitely give the name of the kernel with

mk_initrd -k "kernelname" -i "initrdname"

for a kernel named /boot/kernelname and an initrd to be created called /boot/initrdname

Gee, thanks . . . this, for me, is IMPortant lesson :o) Thanks a Ton, Anders. best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

** Reply to message from tabanna on Sun, 4 Aug 2002 08:56:57 +0000 # My CPU is an AMD K/6 : I imagine that running a standard default Kernel, # which is NOT Optimised for AMD K/6 will result in some small sacrifice of # efficiency, but, not significant for a non_power user like me :o) ? The default kernel is compiled for i686, so it's not very far off from the performance for a K6. I have an Athlon-700 and it works just fine. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / ---/ / (_) __ __ _ _ _ __ --/ /__ / // \/ // /_/ /\ \/ / -/___//_//_/\_//__,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(8.0), Kernel 2.4.18, X 4.2 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.1.1) PolarBarMailer 1.22prev3 with IBM JDK 1.3.1