Re: kernel-panic - not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs onunknown -block (0.0)

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 13:35 +0300, Waleed Harbi wrote:
> you don't need linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 in redhat now, just install
> kernel-devel package and then go to /usr/src/kernels like this:
> cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-11.EL-smp-i686
> make menuconfig
> ... etc
this is not correct! you cannot use the headers from kernel-devel to
build a full kernel!

you need the src.rpm, but just the tar.bz2 is not enough, you need to
also apply all the patches, so a rpmbuild -bp is needed on the .spec
file.