On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: > Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the > problem in a glance). > > > Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8
OK, you seem to have run into the "Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and replace it with ATA" thing that happened in 2.6.18... In menuconfig , under Drivers, there's a menu a little bit below the IDE?MFM stuff. It's called SATA/PATA or similar. You will find appropriate settings for your hardware there. I can't elabortae as I don't know what you have, but you disk settings seem to be IDE > Attached the panic message: > > > VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) > > please append a correct "root=" boot option. > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - > block (0,0) Please, please, please always quote the correct error messages and leave your personal evaluation out of it. See how the above says absolutely nothing about ext3? But your original post was all about that, and without the actual error and .config, we would have spent hours trying to get your fs working, when in fault it is not faulty... -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
