On Friday 22 April 2005 05:26, Danny Sauer wrote:
only hard drive in the system. Then I type kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 [...] It says "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)". [...] I've tried specifying an initrd (the one in /boot) with grub, too, and there's the same problem, though the kernel does say that it found a ramdisk before it hangs on the root filesystem.
The kernel doesn't have built-in reiser support, you need the reiserfs module in the initrd. Do you have that?
Now, using grub's tab completion, I can see that the device nodes /dev/hda1 and /dev/pts are where they should be. The root filesystem is fine. What I'm wondering is, does the default 9.2 kernel not have reiserfs support?
No suse kernel has ever had that built-in