Kernel panic after installing

[halak79]

Last night I downloaded the minimal install CD and followed the Handbook instruction but when I got around to rebooting I got a kernel panic. The last few lines around the kernal panic where:
The last few lines before the kernel panic:

md: ... autorun DONE
UDF-fs: No partition found(1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB Validate Failed
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on <..?..>

The last part of it was like 'unknown [something] (1,0)'
At first I thought maybe I didn't setup /etc/fstab correctly, but then I realized that if it couldn't mount the root volume it probably wasn't able to read /etc/fstab yet.

My install wasn't exactly to the letter, I already had a 2 gig partition with w2k installed on it. So the drive partition was like this:
/dev/hda1 - w2k
/dev/hda2 - boot
/dev/hda3 - swap
/dev/hda4 - root

But I think adjusted everything correctly.

I used genkernal instead of the manual kernal install
I used LILO instead of GRUB

So.. I don't really want to start over from scrath, any way to adjust what I've setup to make it work?
I also have second thoughts about using genkernel and LILO, so I was thinking maybe to manually make the kernel and use GRUB instead.
I also want it to boot with a higher resolution display mode...

Any help is great,

Thanks,
-sam

[TheRAt]

suggest that you manually compile your kernel, and ensure that the filesystem support you require is compiled in the kernel..
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[halak79]

Thanks, I manually installed the kernel and all is Ok.
It doesn't automatically detect my network connection though... I have to do: ifconfig eth0 up

I guess I'll take my other issues to a new thread.

Thanks again

[TheRAt]