Hi, Im assuming that you have a SCSI HD 'cos it looks like your hard disk/its partitions are not visible to the system by the time it comes to this stage of mounting the root partition. The known way of doing this is creating a RAMDISK with the mkinitrd command and pointing to the initrd image in your lilo or grub. if you could share your hardware config then some more clues might tumble out.
generally checkfor the following:- a) kernel support for the filesystem present on your disk. i.e if you have formattd your hard disk partitions in ext3, reiserfs etc b) support for cramfs if you are going to use initrd c) support for the SCSI controller card (all of the above compiled with the kernel and *not* as modules) --- Nikhil Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > i recently compiled linux 2.6.6 on debian.while > booting the new linux kernel > i'm getting the error message: > > RAMDISK: image too big!(38180/8192blocks) > VFS:cannot open root device "hda9" or unknown block > (0,0) > please append a correct "root="boot option > kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown > - block(0,0) > > plz help. > > regards > nikhil > > "live life ethically" > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - > http://freedel.in > catch ya later (Ive gotta UnWire Life!!!) shiv __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
