Kernel panic

e0r · 02-10-2005, 08:11 AM

Not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (3,66)

that's what happend when i tried to compile my new kernel

, it's the clsoest ive gotten to get it working though..any advice?

mdarby · 02-10-2005, 08:20 AM

Did you update (and run) lilo? Does your new kernel support your root partition's filesystem?

perfect_circle · 02-10-2005, 08:26 AM

Did you compile the root file-system support inside the kernel?Not as a module.
For example, if you have the / as reiserfs, and you compile reiserfs support as module, you'll have a problem, because you'll need the module to read the filesystem, and the module is inside the file-system, which you cannot read. Another option is to use initrd, which is a ramdisk image, that contains some modules, needed to actually boot, (like the root filesystem support module).
Hope this is the case, and that this post helps.

2Gnu · 02-10-2005, 08:46 AM

I'll second the above advice. The default kernel options for Slack testing 2.6.10 has Reiser and EXT3 as modules. I had the same symptoms before compiling them in.

perfect_circle · 02-10-2005, 10:03 AM

read this from Pat Volkerding:
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/slackwar.../README.initrd

e0r · 02-10-2005, 06:15 PM

thanks for this, reading now ^_^