Mandrake 8.1 distro

Thomas Ward tward at bright.net
Thu Jan 24 22:12:43 EST 2002


Couple of things here to think about. Did you include support in your kernel
for the file system that your Linux system is installed to. As I recall
Mandrake 8.1 uses ext3 by default.
Also did you update your boot loader to reflect the new kernel?

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Marriage <marriage at seidata.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:08 PM
Subject: Mandrake 8.1 distro


> Downloaded a new kernel from kernel.org and installed it.
> kernel 2.4.17
> Did, make mrproper, make config, make dep, make bzImage,
> make modules, make modules install.
> I copied /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
> /boot/vmlinuz
> I copied the speakup map to /boot
> Didn't get any errors durring any steps.
>
> I rebooted and the system started talking but ended with
>
> unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06
>
> anyone have a suggestion
> Thanks
> Ron
>
>
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