Huebner Andreas wrote:

> Radek wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am totally new to Usenet :-) so don't be angry for me :-)
>> I have a problem with my gentoo, I mean, J have a problem with
>> kernel 2.6.7-r6 (gentoo dev sources). I' ve configured it as usual,
>> compiled, copied to /boot (I' ve made two options in GRUB to boot new and
>> old kernel) and I receive a error message during initialization :
>> "can't mount root device, check "root" option in your GRUB"
>> (it's not exactly like that but I don't remember)
>> What's wrong ?
>
> It's possible that you forgot to include your filesystem drivers into
> kernel.
> Check if you are using filesystem support (ext2, ext3, reiserfs)
> statically. Do not use modules for filesystem.

If the drivers ARE present within the kernel it is also possible that
entries within your /etc/fstab file are not properly specified.