The Saga continues

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

It looks like when you built your kernel you may not have specified the 
appropriate chipset. 
On 5 Jan 2001, at 11:14, Nick Oleksinski wrote:

> 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
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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