On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. > I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, > the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried > a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were upgraded > with everything else, I thought to run a 2.4 kernel, the only gotcha was to > make sure you upgrade modutils as well. > > Here is the exact text: > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
How did you install the kernel? Manually or using Debian kernel package thingy? I always install it manually and never had this problem so I'm assuming it has to be Debian kernel package thingy that's at fault?? Not sure though.
