On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:40:43PM +0100, Giuseppe Lavagetto wrote: > Il giorno gio, 13-01-2005 alle 00:15 +0100, Nicolas Lebas ha scritto: > > The error message is : > > "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(0,0)" > > > > > > I hope Guillame's advices can help you in rebooting in your linux box > succesfully. > > I'll add my two cents: > > The kernel panic you see is due to a missing kernel component in order > to mount one of your filesystems. > > There are several things that can go wrong: for instance > > 1) You did not include the support for your filesystem in the kernel.
It is the plain debian kernel he is using, and it is just fine. > 2) You have compiled the support of your filesystem as a module. In this > case you should build the initrd and pass the initrd= option to yaboot > (just add it in yaboot.conf and do ybin). This should be a problem, since the modules he need are in the initrd. > 3) You did all the required steps I listed above, but did not include > initial ramdisk support and/or cramfs support in your monolithic kernel. > In this case, the kernel will not be able to read modules from the > ramdisk. > > I hope this can help you Friendly, Sven Luther
