Usual cause is no built-in support for the root's filesystem type. Ed <blog.eonsec.com>
On Jan 4, 2008 9:34 AM, Marvin Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I don't remember the last time I built a Linux kernel and yesterday I > tried building the latest vanilla Linux kernel on top of Fedora Core 5 > but I always get this kernel panic error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > Kernel panic: not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > I also tried setting the kernel parameter of my /boot/grub/menu.lst > with "root=/dev/sda1" but still with no luck. > > Anyone has encountered a similar problem and able to solve this? What > do you think I missed here? > > Thanks in advance. > > Marvin > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
