Jerry Geis wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:

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/ I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT

/>/ machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - />/ ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: />/ />/ VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= />/ />/ I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing. / Does your custom kernel (or its initrd) include the USB storage drivers necessary for reading your thumb drive?

Paul,

I started with the config from the old kernel but specifically which ones do I need to check and verify?

Thanks,

Jerry

on 6-6-2008 12:33 PM Jerry Geis spake the following:

Hi all,

I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says:

VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root=

I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing.

Is there something about building a kernel on one machine and then taking that to another machine with different disk structure and it not booting??? What do you do in that case?

I think - hope - this is my last step to get past...

jerry

You have to make sure that your initrd made on the other machine has drivers for the usb storage loaded.