[ILUG] Problem booting 2.6 kernel

[Aidan Delaney]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:38 +0100, Conor Wynne wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:24, Kevin Houlihan wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I've been trying to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, but no matter how 
> > I set up the config, I get this error when I reboot:
> > 
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "306" or unknown-block(3,6)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,6)
> > 
> > I never had this problem with my previous kernel (2.4.26), and the 
> > precompiled 2.6 kernels from Debian seem to work ok. Any ideas 
> > what this relates to? 
> 
> You probably need to make an initrd, or you failed to compile something,
> or you forgot to use the generate-modprobe.conf script. 
The problem is definitely that you have no initrd.  Debian requires an
initrd for its stock 2.6 kernels.  There's a mkinitrd script or somthing
(I'm on Gentoo ATM) but I suggest sticking with the stock Debian 2.6
kernels.
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