Subject: Re: Booting 2.2 gives wrong / fs
From: Mathias Jansson (mj@noc.dn.se)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 04:05:29 PDT
Paul Slootman writes:
> On Sun 27 Aug 2000, Mathias Jansson wrote:
>
> > When I try booting the generic kernel (2.2.13, 2.2.15 and compaq-gen-up) from
> > (MILO: boot sda1:/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.*-generic root=/dev/sda1)
> > I get the following error:
> > --
> > You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
> >
> > Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root filesystem
> > --
> >
> > Why does it try to mount a ufs fs? My / fs is clearly an ext2 fs and so says
> > my fstab. I've checked the kernel configs and they should all include ext2
>
> The kernel can only read your fstab after it has mounted your root
> filesystem, so whatever is in there is irrelevant at the time of the
> error :-)
:) Just excluding stuff
> Are you sure that your root filesystem is /dev/sda1 ?
Very sure, I am able to boot that filesystem as / with
the older kernel (2.0.36).
> Is your SCSI controller supported by that kernel?
yes, I am using the ncr53c8xx and the sym53c8xx driver
as suggested in the kernel-docs, my controller is a
NCR53C810.
/Mathias
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