On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> > > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43 > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 > > > > > > I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice? > > > > > I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the > > kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have > > 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' & > > 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. > > Nope... it as long as I can read the signs, the IDE device was found, so the > problem > seems to be that the e2sf (second extended file system) was either left aside > or > created as a module during the krenel creation... Run make menuconfig again > and check > this out in the ¨filesystems¨ part... the second extended filesystem MUST be > created > as part of the kernel (otherwise, how would the kernel open the e2fs > filesystem to > read the modules? ;-) > This is the mistake I made the first time around. I then rebuilt the kernel with e2fs built-in, but got the same error message. I'll try Paul's suggestion tonight, though. Dan.
