On Wed, 12 May 2004, 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?

welllllllllllll, if your kernel is trying to load the reiserfs
modules from a reiser file system, it ain't gonna work, because
the kernel doesn't yet have the reiserfs modules loaded up needed
to access the reiserfs you're trying to load the reiserfs modules
from.

ok?

i might also guess that the kernel config you modified
was not the config for the kernel which you can boot non-SMP.

start with a known working config. compile install and boot it to
be certain that it is a working config. then modify that to get
what you want. remove any unnescessary stuff to make it smaller.
the standard kernels are config'd to work on as many machines as
possible, and so will include lots of things you can remove.




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