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Try giving a root flag at boot prompt, ie. if your root partition is
/dev/sda1, at "boot:" key in
"boot: linux root=/dev/sda1". This is assuming that "linux" is pointing to
the new kernel image as directed in lilo.

Regit

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?
>
> -----------------
> SJS.