> Hi, > I was compiling the 2.4.18 kernel as a practice run and when I booted > thru it I recieved a message during boottime: > Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:05. > any clues why?
Did you copy over your /usr/src/linux/System.map file into /boot? Also, did you build an initial ramdisk via mkinitrd? A lot of times that last step is overlooked but is necessary because it loads the initial drivers needed to mount the hard disk partitions. > I run the Debian woody release. > also when I boot thru my working kernel, I get a message > during boottime: > spurious 8259A interrupt : IRQ7 > any ideas? I just recently built my first Debian system and I get the same error, except I think the number is different. The system was a junk testbed, so I figured it was my piece of garbage mobo, which his a Soyo K7ADA+. Anyway, the error doesn't seem to cause a problem other than having that annoying message popup here and there, but I would like to figure out how to solve it as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
