I can not test new kernels, upon booting I get the following error: #####Error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for linux NET4.5 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 ##### #####my set up is : hda1 /boot ext2 hda2 /swap swap hda3 / reiserfs ##### I have made sure that reiserfs and ext2 were embeded in the kernel. I have made sure that my fstab, grub.config were right. #####/etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 ##### #####/boot/grub/grub.conf/menu.lst: default 0 timeout 15 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux ;) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/bzImage.org root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi#working kernel# title=Gentoo Linux Test root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi#test kernel# ##### the only thing I changed from original kernel was to disable framebuffer, add realtime clock support(for SMP), and compile scsi generic support as a module.Everything else has remained the same. I have tried to compile the kernel from both vanilla-sources and gentoo-sources several times but I get the same error everytime I try the new kernel (the old kernel boots up fine). These are the steps I took to compile the kernel(s) from the livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2 cd: # net-setup eth0 # passwd # mkdir /mnt/gentoo # swapon /dev/hda2 # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot # mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc # chroot .mnt/gentoo /bin/bash # source /etc/profile # env-update # emerge sys-kernel/vanilla-sources or gentoo-sources (tried both) # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig # make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install # cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot (I even tried to re-emerge sys-apps/reiserfsprogs at this point) # etc-update # exit # cd / # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot # umount /mnt/gentoo/proc # umount /mnt/gentoo # reboot ##### ##### My Pc Dual PIII 1000mhz 1024m pc133 ram Abit Vp6 motherboard with yt bios (uses via apollo proA chipset) IDE1 ibm hd (linux hda) aopen dvd IDE2 philips cdrw highpoint raid IDE1 maxtor hd (windows raid 0) IDE2 maxtor hd ##### Any idea's if I'm doing something wrong or if reiserfs and a SMP kernel recompile don't get along?
You do have IDE Disk support compiled *into* kernel ?
ok once again it was user error. I had taken "Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK)" out, for some reason I thought that was for old IDE drives.
