On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Michael Stack wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been running the stock RH7.1 kernel for about 6 months. I recently
> decided to upgrade, so I grabbed the source to 2.4.12, and did the
> following:
>
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
> (selected options)
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> Since I use a boot disk, I grabbed a new disk, and issued the "mkbootdisk
> 2.4.12" command. The boot disk seemed to build fine.
>
> However, when I boot with the new boot disk, I get an error:
>
> "VFS: cannot mount /dev/hda5, please specify root= option"
>
> or something very similar. When I boot with the old boot disk (kernel
> 2.4.2-2), everything works fine.
>
> I checked:
>
> (1) /etc/lilo.conf - entries seem correct for both 2.4.2-2 and 2.4.12. I
> also ran lilo, so the changes were committed.
>
> (2) ext2fs is compiled into the kernel.
>
>
> /dev/hda5 *is* an ext2fs partition, and it works fine with 2.4.2-2.
>
> Does anyone know why the new kernel refuses to mount /dev/hda5? FYI, that's
> my root partition.
>
> Thanks.
>
Double check that you have compiled in the IDE hard drive drivers. Also
make sure you have support compiled in for your root file system.
(Probably ext2 support.)
Mikkel
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