Andrew Frink wrote: > > > On 8/18/06, *Dale* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Rafael Fernández López wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've googled and I haven't got any successfull results. I've my > hard disk > > as follows: > > > > /dev/hda1 - ext2 (here will go /boot) > > /dev/hda2 - swap > > /dev/hda3 - ext3 (here will go /) > > > > I've compiled gentoo-sources with NO genkernel, but manually. > I've no > > filesystem as modules, everything is included in kernel (as > asterisk (*)). > > > > I am getting the next error when booting: > > > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown > > block(0,0) > > > > And my bootloader is grub, here is grub.conf: > > > > default 0 > > hiddenmenu > > timeout 5 > > > > title=Gentoo GNU/Linux > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 > > > > I can't figure out what's going wrong... because I think that I > don't need > > initram because I've nothing compiled as a module. > > > > Thank you very much, > > Rafael Fernández López. > > > > > > What ever file system you use for /boot and for / must be included IN > the kernel, not as modules. It has to be able to read it for it > to load > the modules. > > That should help. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list > > > Dale > The error seems to be that it doesn't know how to find the drive not > that it doesn't know what FS it is, aslo the OP said that he had no > FS's compiled as modules > > Andrew
I guess I misread it then. It is common for someone to not put the file system root uses in the kernel though. Me, I don't use modules at all. The only module I have is nvidia. Dale :-) :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
