Adam Felix Bogacki wrote:

Thanks Alex.

What was your fix ? I can't get past the 'Kernel Panic' message using 2.6.5*
and at the moment cannot access the net using the rescue floppy with a 2.4* kernel

run the command <mkinitrd /boot/initrd2-6.5 2.6.5custom> (or whatever your current kernel is). This creates a ramdisk for you drivers, so you can then load your filesystem.
then add this to your boot loader.
for lilo add the <initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.5> line into your configuration
ie
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.5
read-only
root=/dev/sdb2
and of course run the <lilo> command to reload the boot sector.
Not sure what the exact configuration is for grub, but it would be something simalar.



Cheers,


Adam.

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:26:39PM +1200, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote:


Thanks. I've been googling by the last line of the error message

"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,69)"



I received this error when I first went to 2.6.x it was caused by the change in the initrd modules, check which version of mkinitrd you have and weather it matches the kernel version you have.

A






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