Cannot mount root device
From: Budai Laszlo
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 11:01:12 EST
Hello,
I get into trouble when I try to compile a new kernel on a
Fujitsu-Siemens B120 computer with Fedora Core 1. The problem was the
same with Redhat Linux 9 too.
So, I'm doing make mrproper, make menuconfig (select the options I
need), make, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, make
install. I got no errors during the compile.
When I reboot the machine with the new kernel I get the following message:
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block (0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" option
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
the same problem is happening if I try a binary kernel downloaded from
rawhide.
what can be done?
Thank you,
Laszlo
my lilo.conf looks like:
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2
label=linux-2.6.2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.2.img
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda3"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
read-only
append="rhgb root=LABEL=/"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.1-1.65
label=2.6.1-1.65
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.1-1.65.img
read-only
append="rhgb root=LABEL=/"
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