VFS Panic on my FC2 Test machine

[Hareesh Nagarajan]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> You have a problem with your mailer... I see the your post 5 times...

Yeah, I kept getting mailer bounces, it is fixed now. Sorry about that.

> 
> 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)

Have it all compiled in.

> If you build them as a part of the kernel, you seem to have forgotten a
> required driver.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. I made the following changes to the 
.config and it boots :)

<snip>
< # Mon Oct 24 02:44:00 2005
---
 > # Mon Oct 24 12:39:10 2005
483c483
< # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
---
 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
545c545,546
< # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
---
 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
559,561c560,562
< # CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS is not set
< # CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS is not set
< # CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS is not set
---
 > CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y
 > CONFIG_SCSI_FC_ATTRS=y
 > CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS=y
646,648c647,651
< # CONFIG_FUSION is not set
< # CONFIG_FUSION_SPI is not set
< # CONFIG_FUSION_FC is not set
---
 > CONFIG_FUSION=y
 > CONFIG_FUSION_SPI=y
 > CONFIG_FUSION_FC=y
 > CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE=128
 > # CONFIG_FUSION_CTL is not set
1489,1492c1492
< CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
< # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
< # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
< # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
---
 > # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
</snip>

Thanks,

Hareesh