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12.20.2003 at 07:37AM PST, ID: 20831319
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kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

Asked by pat5star in Linux, Kernel And Operating System Specific Programming, Linux Distributions

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Hi all,

I'll start off by stating that I'm pretty new to linux so this could likely be a stupid newbie mistake. Here's the problem:

The kernel I have working is version 2.4.22 and I can still boot up to that. I compiled a 2.6 version and installed it in exactly the same way that the old version is, just appending 2-6 to the end of the file. I did this also with /etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo afterwards so when I reboot I get a menu that shows linux and linux-2.6

linux still boots up fine but when I try and boot up linux-2.6 I get some ouput and then a kernel panic with this message:

<snip>
VFS: Cannot open root device "888" or unknown-block(8,8)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,8)

I am running debian testing on a dell poweredge 1750. It has 2 Xeon processors and 1 scsi HD. The whole reason behind my compiling a kernel is trying to get support for high memory (this machine has 2 gigs of ram) and multi-processor support.

I doubt this has anything to do with lilo and suspect that I've somehow configured the kernel wrong. I am using reiserFS and I'm pretty sure I selected all scsi and driver support. Everything is compiled in and not as modules.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance,

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