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> I tried to upgrade my RedHat 9 system from kernel 2.4.20 to v2.4.23,
> using the sources from kernel.org (not the RedHat-distributed kernel
> versions). I have successfully upgraded my kernel before, so I used
> make oldconfig to create my .config file, and modified a few options.
> But after 'make dep bzImage modules modules_install install' (and
> reboot), I got an error message that says:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> At that point, I decided to try to recompile the 2.4.20 using the
> original .config I had used to successfully compile the first time.
> Boy, was that a mistake. I didn't realize it was going to overwrite my
> existing /lib/modules/2.4.20. And to top it off, I'm still getting the
> above error message in 2.4.20, even though I'm using the exact same
> .config and the exact kernel version that worked for me before! I don't
> understand how this is possible. What am I missing?
>
> I tried googling around on this error message and found other people
> with this problem, and the common solution seemed to be that the / fs
> type was not compiled into the kernel. However my root fs type is EXT2
> (according to a previous kernel which runs OK), and I have
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y in my .config file. So I don't think that is the
> problem. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The relevant entries from my lilo.conf are as follows:
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> linear
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> label=2.4.20
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda2
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.23
> label=linux_2.4.23
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.23.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda2
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

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> Make sure you have the driver of the partition type of your root
> filesystem compild into the kernel and not as a module.

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Is there something else I should be doing to compile EXT2 file support?
I thought setting CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y was all I needed.

Thanks,
Brian
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> Rick10 wrote:
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> As I mentioned before:
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> Is there something else I should be doing to compile EXT2 file support?
> I thought setting CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y was all I needed.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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