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Dear All
I was trying to reboot the machine after compiling
the kernel image and generating
an initrd image . An initrd image is needed for
loading the SCSI module at boot
time. I got the following error message after
rebooting and picking the label for the
new kernel. I am running 2.4.18 that came with SuSE
8.0.
Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on 03:03
Here are the steps I followed.
1) cd /usr/src/
(changed to the directory
/usr/src)
2) cp r linux-2.4.18 linux-2.4.18-20021208 ( I was
using 20021208 as EXTRAVERSION)
3) rm linux (Removed the
existing link)
4) ln -s linux-2.4.18-20021208 linux (Created
the new symbolic link to the extension)
5) cd linux
6) Edited the EXTRAVERSION = line in the
Makefile.
EXTRAVERSION = -20021208
7) make mrproper
8) make xconfig
9) make dep
10) make clean
11) make bzImage
12) make modules
13) make modules_install
14) cp linux-2.4.18-20021208/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-20021208
15) cp
System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.18-20021208
16) cd /boot
17) mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.4.18-20021208 -i
initrd-2.4.18-20021208
linux:/boot # mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.4.18-20021208
-i initrd-2.4.18-20021208
using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/" as "reiserfs") creating initrd
"//boot/initrd-2.4.18-20021208" for kernel "//boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-20021208"
(2.4.18-20021208)
no such module: reiserfs no such module: ide-scsi Concatenating splash picture size 800x600 to initrd... done. It generated the image file but the above warning
seems to prevent the reiserfs module from being loaded
at boot time.
Any reason why the
mk_initrd fails?
18) I still went ahead and added a new section to
/etc/lilo.conf and ran /sbin/lilo.
image =
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-20021208
label = linuxDev root = /dev/hda3 vga = 788 initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.18-20021208 append = " hdd=ide-scsi" 19) When I rebooted and picked linuxDev, the system
panicked.
Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on 03:03
Any hints would be highly appreciated.
Murali
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