On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 12:40 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > Here is the screen output for the kernel panic:- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- > block(0.0) > Pid: 1. comm:swapper Not tainted 3.0.4 #1 > Call trace: > [<c1224927>] ? panic+0x4d/0x137 > [<c1326947>] ? mount_block_root+0x1e6/0x1fa > [<c1326151>] ? parse_early_options+0x18/0x18 > [<c1326994>] ? mount_root+0x39/0x4d > [<c1326151>] ? parse_early_options+0x18/0x18 > [<c1326aad>] ? prepare_namespace+0x105/0x135 > [<c132623a>] ? kernel_init+0xe9/0xf2 > [<c1227036>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The computer locked and only continually pressing the on/off button > worked. > > Any help appreciated. I can upload the .config file, but obviously not > to this user group > because it is 70KB long! :-) > > Regards, Sian
Perhaps no initrd was build? Perhaps you didn't run apt-get build-dep linux when installing the requirements to build a kernel? I did it in this order apt-get update apt-get install fakeroot build-essential crash kexec-tools makedumpfile kernel-package kernel-wedge apt-get build-dep linux apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libelf-dev asciidoc binutils-dev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1320034589.2802.5.camel@debian