Kernel Panic

[prospero]

Hi friends:

I am installing the linux kernel 2.6.11.7 in suse linux 9
the instalation was with make menuconfig
make & make modules_install

But how begin show a kernel panic with message:

with initrd-2.6.11;
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISKl Loading 1228KiB [1 disk] into ram disk.. done.
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2)

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda7"
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2)

yo compile raiserfs dentro del kernel

sorry but i dont no speak english

Que estará pasando disculpen la ortografia es que no hablo muy bien ingles

[Samoth]

I am having the same problem with the default Slackware 10.0 KERNEL.

[WalGrom]

Hi.

You installed typing

make menuconfig
make install
make modules_install

and you inserted reiserfs _NOT_ as a module indeed?
If your root partition is a reiser file system you have to
insert the driver.

Other point may be, that you're using S-ATA harddisks and enabled
the SCSI-option for S-ATA drives during kernel-compilation.

Then your root-Filesystem is not on /dev/hda# (for example)
but on /dev/sda# . (where # is the number of your root-partition on the harddisk)

You may try it out stopping the boot process during the lilo boot prompt
and type in your kernel-name and append the "root=/dev/sda#" option.

For example:
linux root=/dev/sda1

(you might even try
linux reiserfs root=/dev/sda1
if you compiled reiserfs as a module...)


Good luck,
Stephan