Sorry for the top post

Including either the output of dmesg or the content of lilo.conf would
help...


On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:50:17 -0700, Ryan wrote:

> 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