[H-GEN] kernel error

[Tony Nugent]

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On Thu Jun 27 2002 at 08:48, Shaun Nykvist wrote:

> I have a pii 400 machine with an asus p2bs board (onboard scsi)
> running.  It has as its first boot device a scsi hard drive.  The machine
> runs fine with the old kernel 2.2.19 with debian, however when I rebuild
> the kernel 2.4.18 - I get a kernel panic and another line stating that it
> cannot connect to VFS and it has a problem loading root.  I have usually
> always used custom kernels with great success - but can't work this one out
> - has anybody seen a similar thing and know what I am missing

It is likely that you don't have the right scsi drivers loaded when
the kernel is trying to mount your filesystems.

If this is the problem (which isn't clear from your description),
then you need to either compile your kernel with the scsi drivers
for the boot/root devices built into it, or have the driver modules
pre-loaded at boot via an initrd.

> Cheers
> Shaun

Cheers
Tony

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