there can be two reasons for the error that you are getting: 1) Your root device i.e. your hard disk is not being detected properly which may happen if you are using RAID and the drivers for RAID are compiled in kernel or initrd image or, 2) Your root filesystem is not being recognized by kernel. Possible reasons: again filesystem support should either be compiled in kernel or as modules inside initrd. -Manu On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:58:21 -0300 (ART), Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin2000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have downloaded the linux kernel using bitkeeper and > compiled the kernel as a deb package. I installed the > package I built and everything it seems to be okay. > > But when I boot the kernel on my laptop the following > message is printed: > > kernel panic - not syncing: VFS - unable to mount root > fs on unknown block(0,0). > > I have checked my grub file and it is okay. All the > setup is done by the deb package. The initrd.img is > also created by the deb package. > > Does anyone know what is going on? Have i forgotten > anything else in the kernel configuration? > > BR, > > Mauricio Lin. -- Manu Garg http://manugarg.freezope.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
