On Wed, 17 May 2006 14:35:04 -0500 "Noah Markon" <nmarkon at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/17/06, Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > > I recently upgrade a kernel on my laptop (slackware 10.1) from > > 2.6.15 to 2.6.16 (using "make oldconfig" from 2.6.15's kernel > > config). I pulled up lilo.conf and just replaced 15 with 16 > > and reran lilo - no problems. Now when booting though I get > > this fun message: > > > > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block (3,4) > > > I've had a problem similar to this. Turns out that my HD was > formatted as a filesystem that I didn't compile into the kernel. > Thus the kernel didn't know what to do with the HD. Got around to rebuilding the kernel yesterday - ReiserFS was compiled as a module - there was no initrd (or was there ever) so I changed this to be built into the kernel. Thanks, Josh