> On Oct 28, 2011
2:26 PM, "Clive Cooper" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But it only boots so far and I get a Kernel panic.
>
>
> > VFS: unable to mount the root fs.
> There are a few causes of this:
> 1) you haven't compiled the right fs support
into the kernel.
> 2) you haven't compiled the right drivers
for the device. For a USB device maybe you need an initrd? Not sure.
> 3) the device might have a different name in this version of the
kernel than the one you did the build with.
Failing to pass the
rootwait parameter to the kernel can also cause a panic.
http://ro-lookandfeel.blogspot.com/2011/06/root-filesystem-for-beagleboard-on-mmc.html
I got a list of
available partitions from the kernel that didn't include the boot
device.
> As for the other reply about swap
partitions, is it possible to use a file or a partition for hibernate?
You'll kill a
> flash device if you use it for swap.
I'd like to know that, too, although I've never
tried hybernate on Linux....
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