Boot Error On Customized Kernel [solved]

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Hey guys,

I'm getting into some trouble on my newly compiled kernel. I had no issues compiling a kernel before but I'm getting booting issues. I guess it could be some type of SATA support issue since this is the first time I had a SATA drive. However, I'm very sure that I compiled SATA support right into the kernel instead of it being a module.

This is my filesystem config:

## File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=m
CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_JBD2=m
CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=m
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS=y
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_RT=y
# CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_GFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE=y
CONFIG_PRINT_QUOTA_WARNING=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V1=m
CONFIG_QFMT_V2=m
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=m
CONFIG_GENERIC_ACL=y

and this is the boot error:

VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block (0,0)Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

My OpenSUSE kernel works just fine, i don't understand why mine doesn't.

xboxrulz
Edited November 3, 2008 by yordan
Added the word "solved" in the title (see edit history)

[yordan 10]

Seems to say clearly that /dev/sda2 is a corrupted filesystem.Did you try to boot on a Knoppix LiveCD, to see /dev/sda2 is available, and if you can mount it ? Or at leas make a fdisk -l on it ?

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

lol, I'm stupid, forgot to do make modules_install. Now it works lol.

 

It couldn't find the SATA module to control the hard drives. Now it works once I recompiled everything back as a module and did the make modules_install.

 

xboxrulz