According to Cristian POP: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi all,
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> I'm kind of newbie in linux.
> I installed RH 6.0 in server mode, with kernel 2.2.5
> I want to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.9 (test only)
> After compiling the kernel and booting I get the following
> message and kernel doesn't boot :
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> ....
> Starting kswapd v1.5
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
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You defined the IDE driver as a module and possably did not define KMOD,
kmod is the module manager which loads modules on request, so your kernel
cannot be used as the IDE driver is not getting loaded and therefor the root
filesystem cannot be mounted.
It could also be that you forgot to do;
make modules modules_install.
Its advisable never to define drivers you need _ALL_ the time as a module,
espessally a driver which is needed to manipulate your system.
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:08
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08
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> and hangs!
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> At compile time it says this:
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> Root device is (3, 8)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 3540 bytes.
> System is 346 kB
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.9/arch/i386/boot'
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> in lilo.conf :
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> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> # timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda8
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> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=new
> root=/dev/hda8
> read-only
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> TIA,
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> C-ya,
> Cristian POP
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