Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've googled and I haven't got any successfull results. I've my hard disk
> as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1 - ext2 (here will go /boot)
> /dev/hda2 - swap
> /dev/hda3 - ext3 (here will go /)
>
> I've compiled gentoo-sources with NO genkernel, but manually. I've no
> filesystem as modules, everything is included in kernel (as asterisk (*)).
>
> I am getting the next error when booting:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
> block(0,0)
>
> And my bootloader is grub, here is grub.conf:
>
> default 0
> hiddenmenu
> timeout 5
>
> title=Gentoo GNU/Linux
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3
>
> I can't figure out what's going wrong... because I think that I don't need
> initram because I've nothing compiled as a module.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Rafael Fernández López.
>
>   

What ever file system you use for /boot and for / must be included IN
the kernel, not as modules.  It has to be able to read it for it to load
the modules.

That should help.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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