what are domain sockets

eyevee99 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 239

my kernel falls over trying to load FAT support (I believe) with an error about no valid domain sockets...

NET4: Unix Domain Sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET 4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded
FAT: bogus logixal sector size 0
FAT: bogus logixal sector size 0
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

The unix domain socket message is most likely a red herring. The "ds" message refers to card drivers.

What root filesystem do you use? Have you compiled in support for this directly into the kernel rather than as a module? Does "fdisk -l" show the right partition type for the root partition?

While booting, it tries different file systems for the root device. The fact that it tried FAT probably indicates that you haven't built in your filesystem support into the kernel.

eyevee99 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 239

thanks for the tip.

Before reading this I deleted .config and started again. it now works. I have no idea what I did wrong. But your suggestion sounds plausible I was messing around in filesystem. Perhaps I had XFS unchecked or as a module.

cheers,
Ryan