Robin Kauffman <robin@kauffmanfamily.org> wrote:
> Upon bootup, I get the
> error message: "Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> on unknown-block(0,0). It gets passed the same options as the 2.4
> kernel (root=/dev/hda3 ro).

Assuming that your kernel is /boot/vmlinuz, what does the following
command yield:

rdev /boot/vmlinuz

How do you pass the root=/dev/hda3 parameter to the kernel?
On the boot prompt? Via a boot loader? Which boot loader?
How did you configure the boot loader?

Have you tried building the kernel image so that the correct root device
is compiled into it? Or changing it with 'rootflags'?
Then try to boot WITHOUT passing the root= parameter to the kernel
and see if it works.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe