Re: Solved: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

2005-06-12 Thread Marty
Craig Russell wrote: In terms of mirroring the boot disk I was referring to an LVM or raidtools setup with a raid1 mirror. If it is done, I'd like to be able to boot off of either disk in the event of a failure. Unless I'm missing something, LILO or grub already allow that without the need f

Re: Solved: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

2005-06-12 Thread Craig Russell
Marty wrote: Craig Russell wrote: It was recommended that I *NOT* use initrd unless I absolutely had a reason (booting from LVM or raid, etc) but all of the debian images come in this manner and I have been unable to compile a kernel and get it to boot without initrd. Am I missing something

Re: Solved: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

2005-06-12 Thread Marty
Craig Russell wrote: It was recommended that I *NOT* use initrd unless I absolutely had a reason (booting from LVM or raid, etc) but all of the debian images come in this manner and I have been unable to compile a kernel and get it to boot without initrd. Am I missing something? I could be

Solved: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

2005-06-12 Thread Craig Russell
Bried re-coup of the problem: Seemed like no matter what drivers I compiled into the kernel either statically or as modules I got the above error. I resorted to installing the kernel-image from debian.org and this installed perfectly. I still wanted/needed to know what my issue was so I diffe