Richard Sivernell wrote: > I have been able to create a new kernel 22.4.20-r6, it now built > properly as no errors. On reboot I get the following: > > VFS: can not mount fs on 03:03 > > and the system goes no farther. > > My fstab file. > cdimage / # more /etc/fstab ... > # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to > opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 > noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs default > 0 0 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro > 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs default > 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /swdev reiserfs default > 0 0 > /dev/hda7 /opt reiserfs default > 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /test reiserfs default > 0 0 > > # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > > # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for > # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). > # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will > # use almost no memory if not populated with files) > # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > ... > > I can boot back into cdimage no problem, the old kernel will not > boot into fs either. any help is appreciated here
I got something like this when my kernel didn't have support for the file system type from which I was trying to boot. Do you have either module or built in support for ext3 and reiserfs? Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Plain Text Emails Don't Pass Viruses! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
