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Hi Again: Well, in my ongoing struggle to try & get my kernel to work with my ethernet card I built the kernel version 2.2.18 up from 2.2.13. What's unfortunate is that my system won't boot now- it gives me the following message: VFS: Cannot open root device 21:07 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:07 I assume this means that linux isn't recognizing my hard drive (Quantum Fireball KX27.4AT). This drive supports Ultra-ATA 66 (66.4 Mbps burst) but Quantum's website also claims 100% backward compatibility with the IDE/ATA standard(s). I'm almost positive that I've got that support built in to the kernel (modules not used). I remember having similar trouble installing Linux the first time using RedHat 6.1; SuSE 6.3 worked, however. The error messages were different as I recall when trying RedHat. Anyone seen this before? Is it significant that the hard drive can read the kernel but can't mount the root fs? Sorry to be such a bother to everyone but it's all your fault- you guys answer my questions! Thanks -Nick Oleksinski - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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