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In article <36972DFA.7A3C1CC5@wantree.com.au>, Regit Young
<regit@wantree.com.au> wrote:

>Spires J Spires wrote:
>
>> I recently tried to compile a kernel, all went well - no errors or
>> probs., but when I try to boot with the new kernel, it gets so far and
>> then stops with the following message:
>>
>> VFS: Cannon open root device 03:05
>> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>>
>> I'm using Redhat 5.1 and with kernel 2.0.36 - the default kernel from
>> the RPM's boots and works perfectly. I'm fairly certain I have all the
>> necessary things compiled into the new kernel (i.e: ext2 fs & proc). The
>> error occurs whether I boot the new kernel from floppy or hard disk.
>>
>> Can anyone help?

You have ensured that support for the device you're booting from is
compiled *directly* into the kernel, and not as a loadable module?  For
example, my kernel has ext2fs and IDE hard disk support compiled
directly in.  If support is compiled as a module, the kernel won't know
how to mount the hard disk in order to find the module to tell it how
to mount the hard disk... you see the problem?

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