just for the record, and searchers to follow... thanks to all those who mailed me back about his one, a few things needed doing.
The system was booted using the install cdrom and the command rescue root=/dev/sda1 (ide drives of course would use /dev/hda1) as far as i can tell the "bunk" kernels are reiser only at the moment. so having used his apt lines to upgrade the appropriate utilities i downloaded the kernel image from testing and used dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.6-686_2.4.6-1_i386.deb to install it. then the other gotcha was having to add the following line into LILO after the vmliniz stanza initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.6-686 ran lilo then rebooted, and now everything is groovy! thanks for the help of those who did. John _____________________ At 10:09 AM 7/25/01 +0000, 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] > >