[clug] Problem Booting....

Alfred alfred at mazuma.net.au
Wed Dec 24 02:46:24 GMT 2003


Did you compile the reiserfs drivers into the kernel itself and not as a 
module (so it actually has them on boot before the filesystem is mounted).

Donovan J. Edye wrote:

> G'Day,
> 
> - I have just done a Debian SARGE net install
> - I then built a 2.60.00 kernel with reiserfs as the file system
> - My fstab is:
> 
> /dev/hda1  /  reiserfs   defaults
> 
> - I then installed grub on (hd0,0)
> - Within grub I then did:
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> kernel /vmlinuz     (This is a symlink to my new kernel built with dpkg)
> boot
> 
> All of the above report no errors. However when I boot I get:
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device NULL or unknown block (3,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
> 
> I am sure I have screwed something basic up here. Can someone help me out
> plse?
> 
> --Donovan 
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