You have a problem with your mailer... I see the your post 5 times... As for your problem: How did you configured the kernel's IDE drivers and file-systems? Inside the kernel or as modules? If you build them as modules, you need to create an initrd file using mkinitrd(8) and add the initrd line to your "test" grub section. (Check the original FC2 section) If you build them as a part of the kernel, you seem to have forgotten a required driver. Gilboa On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 03:20 -0500, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I installed FC2 on my test machine, to test my kernels and I keep > hitting the following VFS panic error: > > http://www.cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/vfs-panic.png > > My grub.conf looks like this: > > <snip> > default=1 > timeout=10 > title FC2 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/sda2 > initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img > > title test > root (hd0,0) > kernel /bzImage ro root=/dev/sda2 > </snip> > > The first kernel (default=0) works fine. The second kernel (default=1) > is a vanilla 2.6.13.1 and contains no modules; that is everything has > been compiled in, so I figured that I do *not* need a ramdisk (initrd) > and just having the kernel - bzImage (compressed kernel) is ample. The > config file is here: > > http://www.cs.uic.edu/~hnagaraj/test-config > > The relevant sections from my fstab look like this: > > <snip> > /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > </snip> > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > > Hareesh >