Apparently, though unproven, at 11:47 on Friday 05 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly:
> On 11/04/2010 03:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote: > >> The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got > >> the same error. > >> > >> "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on > >> unknown-block (2,0)" > > > > It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't compiled > > in the drivers for your hard disk controller. > > All my hard disks are sata except the main one with the os on it that is > ide. Is a fairly new disk, may be a year old, but should the following > driver be compiled in? > [ ] Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver No. Those are the ancient drives that shipped with original PCs way way way back in the 80s. Remember those monsters that were never bigger than 32M, were about 4 inches tall and had gigantic cables that were sensitive to be sneezed around? Those were MFM drives. These days libata does IDE as well. Think of it as a sort of universal wrapper around all drives you can buy today and gives a consistent interface. You do still need the driver for the IDE chipset which slots in one level lower. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
