Slackware 13.37 Kernel Panic

Tribulation · 05-02-2011, 10:57 PM

I installed Slackware 13.37 today, fresh install. I added the generic 2.6.37.6 kernel to lilo, rebooted, and ran with it. I transferred some stuff to my hard drive and installed a few things, reboot again and now I can't boot up with my kernel of choice (but I can with the huge kernel). It stops during the boot process and says

Code:

[1.785238] No filesystem could mount root, tried: romfs
[1.785342] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)
[1.785417] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #2

After that is a line that says Call Trace and several lines after that with stuff that makes no sense to me and that I don't feel like typing out, but will if it is relevant. I've never experienced a Kernel panic before, any ideas on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated.

willysr · 05-02-2011, 11:06 PM

you need to create initrd if you want to use generic kernel
see /boot/README.initrd for more detail

genericflounder · 05-02-2011, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

you need to create initrd if you want to use generic kernel
see /boot/README.initrd for more detail

The man page for mkinitrd is incredibly helpful as well.

Tribulation · 05-02-2011, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

you need to create initrd if you want to use generic kernel
see /boot/README.initrd for more detail

I did, but I guess I'll use it again and see what happens..

Tribulation · 05-02-2011, 11:24 PM

Well I ran the mkinitrd command again and it's working again... Wonder what happened before..

willysr · 05-02-2011, 11:31 PM

probably missing or incorrect parameter