Install nodes with re-configured kernel image

Michael Tautschnig michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com
Sun Jan 15 23:17:25 CET 2006


> >>>>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:48:52 -0800 (PST), Brian Showalter <bshowalter at sbcglobal.net> said:
> 
>     > Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up
>     > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy
>     > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda8" or unknown-block(2,0)
>     > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>     > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs or
>     > unknown-block(2,0)
> Which should be your root device?
> Do you need special device driver to access your drive which hold the
> root partition? Then append the name of the kernel module to
> /etc/modules. Therefore you can use the variable $moduleslist in a
> *.var file. 

I don't think this will do the trick here - the module needs to be put into an
initrd or built into the kernel as /etc/modules (and the kernel-modules) aren't
available at that time.

Regards,
Michael

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