Hi Janina. Actually, I'm running Debian potato. Actually, the exact error is: Kernel panic: vfs: Unable to mount root filesystem on 0302. I'm not sure quite what 0302 refers to, I might just try playing with system.map some more trying different combinations. I used fdisk to partition the disk to ext2, and it boots fine with the old kernel. I just want to make sure there's nothing that I'm missing. And if you want, just let me know if you want me to post system.map to the list. Thanks again! ----- Original Message ----- From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: Re: root filesystem > Hi, Igor: > > Are you using Red Hat? If you first configured and partitioned your system > with a recent Red Hat you are probably using ext3 file system. This is > good, but I don't know if it's supported in 2.4.17 by default. > > Someone here will tell us, I'm sure. > > I offer this up, because I've run into this a few times. > > PS: You can always move down to ext2fs using tune2fs -- read the man page > for tune2fs to learn its commands -- but that would be too bad, because > ext3 seems pretty helpful. If this is the issue, there's probably a patch > for 2.4.17, though that will mean recompiling. > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Igor > Gueths wrote: > > > Hi listers. I built a 2.4.17 kernel because this is what I happen to have, and rebooted the machine. It came up talking and it probed hardware successfully. However, it can't mount the root filesystem and it terminates with a kernel panic: fs: Unable to mount root filesystem. I checked system.map to make sure it said root=/dev/hda2 because this is my root partition, and it is also in lilo.conf as root=/dev/hda2. Here's basiclly what it looks like: > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 > > label=Kernel1 > > read-only > > root=/dev/hda2 > > alias=1 > > > > It also says root=/dev/hda2 closer to the top of the lilo.conf. What could I be missing? I alias back to the kernel with 2, and it boots fine. Any help would be great! Thanks in advance. > > > > Igor > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
