Le Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:42:27PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader ecrit : > I made a dual boot system out of a Win2K box I had. I installed sarge > and everything worked great. I could boot to both Debian and Win2K. > I did that install with the sarge installer and the 2.4.26 kernel. I > later installed the 2.6.9 kernel from source. My problem is that now I > get a kernel panic message on boot saying "VFS: unable to mount root fs > on unknown block" when trying to boot to the 2.6 kernel. > What's strange about this is that in the menu.lst file everything is > exactly the same for both kernels.
Except one thing : both kernel certainly dont have support for you
root partition filesystem, but the Debian one can find the appropriate
module in its initrd. I bet that your kernel doesnt have either an initrd
image or the filesystem support ! ;-)
Fanfan
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