On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 04:12:56 -0800
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:28, Oliver Lange wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Running stage1-gentoo on AthlonXP/nForce,
> > kernel panic at boot:
> > VFS: unable to mount root fs on 16:43
> > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
> >
> > Any clues ?
> >
>
> Possibly you have a filesystem type on the root partition not built into
> the kernel itself? If you chose ext3 for the partition, but you didn't
> build ext3 into the kernel, then you'd get a message like this.
>
> Don't worry too much about the spurious interrupt message.
>
> - Mark
>
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I don't agree. You can mount ext3 with only ext2 enabled in kernel. Maybe you
need to
pass root=/dev/something to kernel?
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