On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:45:59PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: > I can boot using the 2.2 kernel OK but trying to boot using the 2.4 > kernel fails wit a Kernel panic: > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 > modprobe: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3 > VFS: Cannot open root device "304" or 03:04 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04
Block device major #3 is the first IDE device ... my guess is that you've compiled IDE support as a module (or you haven't compiled it in at all), and your root filesystem is sitting on an IDE drive. You need to compile IDE (and your root filesystem type) in the kernel proper, and not as modules. If you don't, it will try to load the modules, but since it doesn't know how to talk to the IDE device or filesystem yet, it'll fail miserably and sulk in the corner. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
