This is a little out of my realm, but your subject says Reiserfs. Are you booting into a Reiser partition? And if so, have you compiled Reiser support into your kernel? Loading a boot fs as a module will fail, but if you're messing around with your .config file then I'm sure you know that.
J --- Sent from the road... -----Original Message----- From: Juan Alberto Cirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, Mar 11, 2007 10:49 pm Subject: [clug-talk] Config Kernel File 2.6.20.x w/ support fpr Reiserfs, Dual Core and ATA hdd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], CLUG General <[email protected]> Hi All, > From the subject above you can tell what my problem is: I got a new >Dell Latitude D620 w/Dual Core and I want to install Linux on it >(actually I already did, Slackware 11.0). >However, when I load the recompiled kernel I get the dreaded "kernel >panic:VFS: cannot mount root fs" error. >VFS: Cannot open root device "xxx" or unknown-block(x,x) >Please append a correct "root=" boot option >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(x,x) >I got the same error when I installed the kernel-generic-smp-2.6.17.13 >kernel that comes with the distro. >What I need is a working copy of a working kernel-2.6.20x.config file. Help? > >-- >=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= >----------------------Juan Alberto Cirez--------------------- >------------------Phone: +1(780)742-8860--------------------- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= > Wide and Open Northern Alberta, Canada. >=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= > > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

