Did you configure properly your /etc/fstab file?

Well, /etc/fstab has not yet available when the panic happens since it's
on the very filesystem the kernel tries to mount and fails at it.

Boovarahan: typically, this error occurs if one of the the following
isn't true:
- you compiled support for your SATA, IDE or SCSI controller into the
kernel (not as module)
- you compiled support for the filesystem of the root partition into the
kernel (not as module)
- the root= option in lilo.conf is correct

Please verify these, along with the lilo settings as mentioned in Dannys
mail.

HTH, Johannes

1. lilo.conf file is as follows:

# /etc/lilo.conf: lilo(8) configuration, see lilo.conf(5)
#

lba32
install=text
boot=/dev/sda6
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=CRUX
        root=/dev/sda6
        read-only
     append="quiet"

# End of file

2.fstab file is this:


/dev/sda6              /        ext3      defaults,noatime    0      1
/dev/sda1          swap      swap      defaults              0      0
/dev/cdrom            /cdrom    iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
devpts                /dev/pts  devpts    defaults              0      0
none                  /sys      sysfs    defaults              0      0
none                  /proc    proc      defaults              0      0
#tmp                  /tmp      tmpfs    defaults              0      0
#shm                  /dev/shm  tmpfs    defaults              0      0
usb                  /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults              0      0

# End of file


3. The SATA / ext3 fs support were not compiled as modules.
4. I have used sda6 only and no other separate partitons are used.

Let me once again chroot and do the compiling.
Thanks.

Boovarahan S