Re: VFS panic: cannot mount root filesystem
Michael J. Micek (mmicek@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:11:49 -0800 (PST)
>
> On 12 Mar 96 at 13:24, I wrote:
>
> > I tried to build 1.3.71 and 1.3.72 without success: The kernels
> > compiled fine, but they wouldn't boot sucessfully. They can't mount
> > the filesystem. The last successful kernel is 1.3.68. I upgraded the
> > sources by patching. I also did make mrproper; make dep; make
> > oldconfig, etc several times. I also checked that there's no *.o file
> > left.
> >
> > Is there a bad patch file? Who has similar experience?
I haven't had this problem, but you aren't the first person
to be bit with the "make mrproper ... make oldconfig" thing.
(I don't use make oldconfig.)
> To make it clearer: The kernel always fails, not only from time to
> time. 1.3.68 works; therefore I guess it's not my partition.
yup, because:
> I'll include the .config;
> maybe it's related with it.
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI is not set
In other words, you can't mount the filesystem because you
haven't included any support for any kind of hard drive!
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