Hello,
 
I installed Crux on a VMware system.
Did all the steps from the manual without any  problem.
 
So I rebooted and I see this message :
 
lilo loading Crux
Bios data check sucessful
Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on unknown block (0,8).
 
The system is one partition of 8G ext4 in the kernel.
 
Roelof