> I'm I brought this problem on myself. But, I compiled a new kernel last
> night on my home machine and made additions to LILO to boot from that kernel
> (I can still use my old kernel, thank God.). But when I try to boot my new
> kernel, it stops and says (I'm paraphrasing here) something like "cannot
> mount root drive".
> I do remember that there was a message on the screen saying "kernel panic"
> and then the message about the "root drive".
i had a similar problem. i traced it down to a configuration setting (of the
enhanced IDE support, i think) which i configured as module. because my root
fs was on the IDE disk, the kernel couldn't access it since the code for it
is in a module, which, i think, can only be loaded after bootup and mounting
the root fs.
remedy: change the configuration setting to include IDE support (if it is
what you configured), not as module.
good luck,
gernot
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