Re: Booting kernel 2.6test9 on redhat 9
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/21/03
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:51:58 -0500
"Frank Pittel" <fwp@warlock.deepthought.com> wrote in message
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> Not to long ago I installed redhat 9 on one of my machines. It was a plain
> jane install in which I had it install everything. I have since bought a
device
> that is only supported with a 2.6 kernel. I went to kernel.org and
downloaded
> 2.6-test9 and while it compiled all right it can't get the machine to
boot.
>
> It gets to the point of mounting the root filesystem and then I get a
kernel
> panic. The exact error is "kernel panic: FS: unable to mount root fs on
> uknown-block(0,0).
>
> The root filesystem is ext3 and I've compiled in both ext2 and ext3. The
drive
> is attached to a promise udma controller and shows up as drive hde. Anyone
have
> any ideas??
Check out http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/, where this very nice fellow
arjanv has been building up RPM's that may work for you. You will need to
recompile some of them for RH 9, but the kernel and modutils RPM's are key
and should work as is.
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