I agree but, it would be nice to have the console messages to see panic. It does sound like somewhere in the initrd phase of booting.
Cheers, From: arshad hussain Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: question about kernel panic On 3/6/08, vichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all: I download Linux 2.6.20.10 and make the kernel by selecting EVERY ide device driver But I reboot it with a kernel panic like below: "Not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)" Could someone tell me where I go wrong? Sincerely Yours, vichy IDE device driver is OK. But you also need FS (ext2/3, xfs ...) build into you kernel. Post you .config file if you think its more comlicated than this. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ