Re: "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block (0, 0)"

["A.M. Fradley" <u2amf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Ryan Sablosky <rsabo5@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Not sure if this helps, but anytime I had this error, it's because I
> didn't compile the filesystem's driver into the kernel.
> 
> On 4/30/05, A.M. Fradley <u2amf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I receive the boot error "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount
> root
> > FS on unknown-block (0, 0)" when I try to use a 2.6.11 kernel that I
> compiled
> > myself. I used:
> > 
> > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.7/
> > make oldconfig
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> > make install
> > 
> > The make oldconfig had been working with 2.6.9 but I wasn't sure whether
> it
> > copied the exiting config file from root itself or whether I had to do
> that
> > myself.  I tried with and without copying the file just in case.  make
> > oldconfig still asked me a load of questions and since it had worked with
> the
> > previous versions I just pressed enter on each.  I assume that makes it use
> the
> > defaults.  I don't know much about what it's doing with the configs and it
> had
> > been working fine until now so I tried to just leavew the settings the
> same.
> > The only other thing I changed was the EXTRAVERSION in the makefile.
> > 
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I somehow fixed it by using 2.6.11.8 instead but I should probably know how to
do that for future reference.  Can you refer me to anywhere that would explain
how to do that?



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