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  From: Ben Roberts <ben@benrob.lnk.telstra.net>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:08:22 +1030

RE: Kernel problems

excellent..i will check it out, thanks heaps.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Mills [mailto:matthew.mills@santos.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 18 March 1999 9:49
> To: Mail Administrator; LinuxList
> Subject: Re: Kernel problems
> 
> 
> Hi I have had this problem before and I believe it is because you 
> have failed
> to select ext2 file system support to be incorporated into your 
> kernel, for
> some reason by default it doesn't seem to be selected when you go 
> to config
> your kernel.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Mail Administrator wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Im running redhat 5.2 on p200mmx, and I've just tried to update 
> my kernel
> > from 2.0.36 to 2.2.1. Whilst everything
> > went according to plan (or so i thought) and I experienced no 
> errors, when
> > I
> > rebooted I
> > received the following error:
> >
> > *********************************************
> >
> > Partition check:
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:11
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:11
> >
> > **********************************************
> >
> > My system then locks up. I am very new to linux so any help 
> would be much
> > appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > ben
> >
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