Re: 2.6.0 Trouble

From: Jordan Greenberg (greenbergj_at_wit.edu)
Date: 12/24/03

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    Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:04:12 GMT
    
    

    Thanks man, i'll look into that. For some more detail, im currently running
    slackware 9.1, if that makes much of a difference.

    "Alan Hughes" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
    news:1072211115.259974@ananke.eclipse.net.uk...
    > Jordan Greenberg wrote:
    >
    > > Hey all.
    > > I'm pretty sure I just made some fantastically stupid mistake, but when
    I
    > > try and boot my lovely, newly compiled 2.6.0 kernel i get the following
    > > message:
    > >
    > > VFS: Cannot open root device "2103" or unknown-block(33, 3)
    > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
    > > Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(33, 3)
    > >
    > > Any and all help figuring out what i screwed up would be greatly
    > > appreciated.
    > > Thanks!
    > >
    > > -Jordan
    >
    > You don't say what distro you are using, however this error message
    > generally indicates that the file system you are using for "/" is compiled
    > as a module; it must be compiled directly into the kernel.


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