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Kernel Panic

Submitted by Anonymous
on December 30, 2005 - 7:14pm

I have recompiled a 2.6.13 kernel and get a kernel panic saying:

kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (3,1).

I am using a reiserfs file system (compiled statically into kernel). I have done this before with no problems. I have checked the block devices and everything else seems OK. I am not using and initrd as reiserfs support has be compiled statically into the kernel.

Any ideas?

‹ partitions all the same size after upgrade to 2.6.15 Promise UDMA 100 PDC20265 and kernel 2.6.5 dma problems ›

RE:Kernel panic

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 30, 2005 - 7:34pm

My guess is that you are using a distro which uses an initial ramdisk - I cant help you very much but - I compiled & installed my first kernel without any probs on vector ( Slack based) which I guess doesnt use an initrd.

But when I tried this on SuSE it failed with exactlyy that message.

Is there an initrd README in the /boot directory ?

I hink you have to do extra stuff for some strange reason.

NOTE : You would get a LOT more feedback on linuxquestions.org IMO compared to here

help , i cannot boot , i tr

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 31, 2005 - 12:11am

help ,
i cannot boot , i tried ututo live cd .. and bang - OS meltdown..!!

i receive message :

EXT2-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4)

kernel panic: VFS : unable to mount root fs on hda1

anyone=$help

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