Ryan wrote:

> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00

The kernel can't talk to the device on which the root file system
resides. You said you installed a RAID set on this system. Is your
root filesystem on that RAID set, and if so, is the appropriate driver
compiled into the kernel?

> 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.

Check your kernel configuration: do you have support for VESA text
modes enabled?

I hope that helps ...

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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