When trying to boot the newly compiled vanilla-kernel, I get a msg saying:

Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs. try passing the root= option to the kernel

This only happens to the kernel I've compiled myself, the ordinary debian kernel (3.0rc2) always boots without errors. I use EXT3 fs, and I have addes support for it in the kernel config.

This is how my lilo.conf file looks like:


lba32
boot=/dev/hda
#install=/boot/boot-menu.b
#map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=150
vga=normal
default=Linux

image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
# restricted
# alias=1


image=/boot/linux-2.4.26
label=Linux-2.4.26
read-only
root=/dev/hda2


other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows(hda1)"

did you add support as builtin or module? there's way to make it work if you have compiled it as module, but it's easier to make ext3 support builtin.

builtin, not module

You have one image booting from /boot and one image booting from /. I'm assuming they should both point to /boot

/vmlinuz is a soft link pointing to /boot/wmlinuz-2.4.28-bf24 - no difference.

I have compiled IDE support (builtin), so initrd isn't required I guess...correkt?

I also have a sentinix machine, using a vanilla kernel compiled by me, and this error never occurs on that machine.