John, You probably forgot to include support for ext2 filesystems in your new kernel.
To try to get your machine running for now, boot your machine, and hold down the shift key (IIRC...). You should see the machine stop at boot: Hitting <TAB> should give you a list of kernels you can chose (again, by memory is foggy here, so it may be something else...). Hopefully you have your old kernel image laying around (if you rebuilt your kernel the Debian way (tm), you will have one). Chose the old kernel, and see if that boots ok. If that all fails, go ahead and re-install, just make sure that you have ext2 enabled. --Rich John Griffiths wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > hoping someone can help me here > > I followed the instructions on > > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > > for upgrading 2.2r3 to the 2.4 kernel. > > I thought i'd followed the isntructions to the letter, > > but when i rebooted all seemed well until halfway through the reboot when it > stopped. > > the last "good" line in the bootup says > > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM > > then we get to the bad stuff > > request_module[block-major-8: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" bot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 > > and that's where it ends. > > any help to either > > a) get the system as-is to boot > > or > > b) re-install and get 2.4 pon the "right way" would be appreciated. > > I'd be very grateful for any help > > John > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________