Kernal Loading problems

[BimM3r Power]

Durning the installation of 'Caldera' Linux, everything goes dandy untill it boots the kernal for the first time. [durning the beginning of set-up]
It reads with this error,
'Kernal Panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 8:04'
It loads the kernal fine, but durning booting it gives that message. Im totally new to this linux, any help? Thx

[nalleberg]

Heh, this is something that is not supposed to be possible under installation of a distro.

Probably the reason is that the kernel does not support the filesystem that you are refering to as "/" (the root filesystem).

Something might have gone wrong in the formatting of the drive.

This happened to me once when i was making my own version (www.linuxfromscratch.org to know more) and tried to boot SuSE (I used SuSE as dev-platform). SuSE supports ReiserFS that I was trying out at the time - very good actually), Trying to mount ReiserFS with a kenel that didn't support that gave me the same message.

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