I just installed slackware 9.1 and installed a RAID5 on it with reiserfs. It seems to
work just fine with a single processor and the kernel that the slack
install comes with. My system is dual cpu and I
want to compile a kernel with SMP.

So I compiled the kernel source that came with slackware with some added
networking modules and smp support. I added in a new label in lilo and the
new kernel shows up at the boot menu and it starts to boot BUT I get this
error:

Please append correct "root=" boot option
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00

Also, with the kernel that comes with slack (the single cpu version) I can
boot up in VESA mode, but in my custom kernel, it doesn't boot into VESA.
I have compiled reiserfs into the kernel, not as a module. The size of the
bzImage is about 1.4MB.

anyone know whats up?

-ryan