On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 05:17:58PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote:
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> Hello!
> I encountered a very strange problem after I installed Kernel
> 2.4.0-test12.
> After doing the normal routine for building a kernel (make menuconfig,
> make dep, make bzImage, adding it to 'lilo.conf 'and doing 'lilo')
> Ok, I reboot, start the new message and then i get this message (I quote
> the last 3 lines of all the log showed on the screen, like in any normal
> boot procedure):
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "1607" or 16:07
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:07
The kernel cannot mount your root filesystem. I can think of two
possible reasons for this:
1. The kernel is configured to mount the wrong block device. I don't
know what 16:07 is, but you can change it in /etc/lilo.conf or,
like the message suggests, add a root=/dev/whatever at the lilo
prompt.
2. The device is correct but unusable. Did you remember to compile
IDE/SCSI, ext2/reiserfs and ELF support into the kernel? A module
won't help; the kernel needs to access the filesystem before it can
load any modules.
- Adi Stav
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