Re: Why am I getting Kernel Panic VFS cannot mount root fs on 301?

[Joe Burks]

Hi Helge,

Thank you for the quick response.  While I was un-modularizing everything per 
your message, I spotted the problem: I didn't have the IDE drivers getting 
built (probably because they are named "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL" in the config 
menu).  All is relatively working now (I can't seem to open a console in X 
windows if I have devfs built - I think this has something to do with 
securetty, but I've made the devfs changes to that file and it is still not 
working).

Thanks for your help!

-Joe

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:39 pm, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:14:39PM -0700, Joe Burks wrote:
> Try to rule out modules problems, make a kernel where
> everything is compiled in.  If you aren't using a initrd
> then at least devfs, the fs used on your root, and the drivers
> for your ide controller _must_ be compiled in because
> modules cannot be loaded until _after_ the root
> fs is mounted.