On 17 Jul 99 09:45:48 Alejandro Montiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Hi:
>
>I installed SuSE Linux 6.1 with kernel 2.2.7 in my system a couple of weeks
>ago. I had Windows 98 and Linux together. Everything was OK. Then I decided to
>reformat and repartition my drive to install the BeOS. After repartitioning,
>everything installed OK, but when I tried to compile my own kernel, I got the
>following error message when booting up:
>
>request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
>VFS: Cannot open root device 03:04
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04
>
>I have tried repartitioning again to make totally sure that my Linux partition
>is below the 1024th cylinder. I have also created a boot disk and tried to
>boot with it, but the problem still remains. I also tried copying the boot
>files to my Windows partition and try to boot from there to no avail. The pair
>of numbers (03:04) change depending on how my disk is partitioned and on which
>partition I have installed Linux.
>
>Some of my system specs are:
>
>Pentium II 450 MHz
>128 MB RAM
>10.1GB Western Digital HDD (IDE)
>Adaptec 2920 SCSI controller.
>TEAC SCSI CD-ROM
>TEAC SCSI CD Burner
>
>Any comment or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you all.
>
>Alejandro Montiel
>
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Perharps, when new kernel was compiled, its configuration was set up wrongly.
The ".config" file should contain:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
otherwise the kernel cannot detect hard disk just because it is not specified.
The 'Kernel panic' message is the result of that.
If so, to fix, just reconfigure
make config
type 'yes' for the above prompt, and compile again.
Regards,
Yuri
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Yuri Kropachev (English spelling)
PhD, Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Universiti Sains Malaysia
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