Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Although the Gateway 500 does have an internal modem that Windows 98SE can use, Linux appears to be able to use only the Hayes external modem. Then can you try a PCI modem instead? This is a critical troubleshooting step. Possibly off-topic, but doe

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Marty
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Although the Gateway 500 does have an internal modem that Windows 98SE can use, Linux appears to be able to use only the Hayes external modem. Then can you try a PCI modem instead? This is a critical troubleshooting step. Possibly off-topic, but does a custom kern

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Gayle's current wvdial problem: After I fixed the lilo.conf with the initrd=/initrd.img, I got the 2.6.8 kernel to run but ran into what appeared to be Bug #276020 filed against that kernel so I went to unstable and got the 2.6.11 kernel. It seems to manifest the same bug with wvdial.

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)] From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:06:29 -0400 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: line 'initrd=/initrd.img

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Marty
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: line 'initrd=/initrd.img' after the read-only line in the Linux label stanza. Now the 2.6 kernel (you guessed or read correctly) boots. It appears to be a little fussier than the bf2.4 kernel which still works fine. I kept it under the LinuxOld label where the pack

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > > > > Original Message ---- > > Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-24 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:26:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

[Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-24 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Original Message Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:26:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Edward Dunagin <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
following panic: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 or unknown-block(33,65) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(33,65) The computer is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III at 500 MHZ. I looked through the man pages for

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
s me the following panic: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 or unknown-block(33,65) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > > Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(33,65) > > > >The computer is a Gateway

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-14 Thread lebbatdot
I am having somewhat the same problem mentioned in this trail. The bin 2.6.3 deb works fine (etcept for alsa which is what started the whole thing) When I recompile I cannot get the root file system to come up. I copied over the /boot/config file, ran make config, checked that ext3 is compiles in,

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Markus LindstrÃm wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | >Don't forget to include "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" | >(CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION) in the kernel's configuration. If you leave | >it out, then the kernel can't read the partition tab

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-11 Thread Markus Lindström
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Don't forget to include "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" (CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION) in the kernel's configuration. If you leave it out, then the kernel can't read the partition table and thus can't find the filesystem. GREAT! That was the missing link! It boots

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
blem comes at boot time, where I can the following message: | | | VFS: Cannot open root device "341" or hdb1 | Please append a correct "root=" boot option | Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hdb1 Don't forget to include "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) su

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Aurel
Ok, it really depends on your config. Do you have a USB mouse or keyboard, what's you sound card, network card...? When you run make {x,g,menu}config there is a short description for each option. The better way is to look at the kernel how-to (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/). I hope my

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Markus Lindström (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > In fact I've been trying to compile 2.6.4 and > 2.6.4-ck2. The compilation itself doesn't encounter any problems, so > that's clear. > > The problem comes at boot time, where I can the following message:

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Aurel
Yes, module-init-tools isn't in stable packages, try to download (you'll find a .deb here: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/module-init-tools/binary-i386/) and install it, you should use modules. Retry making a make-kpkg clean before compiling and choose the default answers and th

VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Markus Lindström
6 kernel (which I've heard many good things about). In fact I've been trying to compile 2.6.4 and 2.6.4-ck2. The compilation itself doesn't encounter any problems, so that's clear. The problem comes at boot time, where I can the following message: VFS: Cannot open root devi