On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:07:38AM -0700, Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela wrote: > > I compile 3.2.9, install the modules and then try an boot... ?and > > it fails to find my root disk and panics. ?I can see from the boot > > messages that the kernel is seeing them, but it's failing to mount and > > switchroot. > > Seems to me that your kernel build configuration does not include the > FS module, for example, if your root FS is ext4 or xfs you should Yeah, I thogught that it's ext3 and ext3.ko is in the tree # grep ext3 init echo "Loading ext3.ko module" insmod /lib/ext3.ko mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/sda3 # ls -l lib/ext3.ko -rw------- 1 root root 219560 Apr 3 16:08 lib/ext3.ko # > Also the problem with compiling a new kernel is that the vanilla > configuration may not work for you and configuring kernel options can > be pretty daunting at first and even with each new version new stuff > keeps piling in. I took the existing config (from /boot/config...) and then ran make oldconfig < /dev/null (which may not have been optimal, but it seemed to work :-)) -- rgds Stephen