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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:36:57 +0930

Re: re-compile kernel

Further to what Daryl said concerning chicken and egg.  In particular
the meaning of the error:

> <CUT>---------------------------
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE
> request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs not mounted
> VFS:Cannot open root device 03:05
> Kernel panic:VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> <END>----------------------------------------

You can decipher this error message via the [block-major-3] tag.  This
refers to the particular device for which the kernel is attempting to
load a module.  The assignment of device numbers to devices is
described in

	/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

This is quite often a useful resource, and reason enough to install
the package containing the kernel documentation.


Cheers,


Andrew


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  + alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au                               Albert Camus

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