> 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?
Where is the host's actual root filesystem? 03:05 says the kernel is looking for it on /dev/hda5 ... is that the right place or not? (It's not typical for a Debian install, but not impossible either.)
If it is correct -- what filesystem type is it? (ext2, most likely). Make sure your kernel has support for that filesystem type compiled in.
If it is incorrect -- what partition should it be? Are you compiling the kernel on the same system you are trying to boot it on? What happens if you specify the correct partition at the lilo (or grub or whatever you use for a bootloader) prompt? Are you booting from hda?
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.
No it's not. It is only necessary if the kernel does not have ide support compiled in (not usual) or dos not have support for your filesystem type compiled in (again unusual, if the filesysystem is ext2). Typical, "vanilla" systems do not need the initrd step to boot/init.
> I run the Debian woody release.
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