swarty wrote: > I am new to the TCLUG list and eager to learn as much as possible. If > this has already been discussed, please just point me in the right > direction. Any and all help will be appreciated. > > I've been running a stock RedHat 8 system as a Samba server for awhile, > and wanted to get RedHat 8 my new nForce2 motherboard. I got all the > drivers and files from nVidia and followed their instructions, as well > as instructions from another nforce forum. Part of the installation > required patching the kernel, and recompiling. I read up on this and it > seemed rather straight forward, but each and every new kernel came up > with this error! > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > I tried checking GRUB to see that every kernel was booting the same, and > all looks the same. This is my first venture into kernel compiling and > configuring. I hope you all can help! > Here are some details: > > RedHat 8 > Kernel 2.4.22 (from Kernel.org) > nForce2 mother board rev 1.04 > latest nVidia nForce2 linux drivers from website > latest nVidia linux drivers for Ti4400 > > Also can anyone point me to a good source for understanding all (or > most) of the kernel configuring options? > > > Since you said your bootloader looks okay, the next guess I would have is that RH uses initrd for an initial boot image. If this is the case, you need to create one for your newly-compiled kernel and point the bootloader toward it. I believe the command is mkinitrd. Of course there may be a way to do this "The Red Hat Way" (I'm not a big RH guy). It's just a guess but anytime I've run into this problem it is either no initrd, bad bootloader config or the filesystem module is not loaded/compiled in. -- The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> http://druswanderings.net <--- Things 'n' Such Get nifty TCLUG merchandise at the TCLUG Store! http://www.cafeshops.com/tclug _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list