I don't have it in front of me, but I remember what it said:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to find root fs on dev (03:05)

Or something very similar to the above.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hicks [mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] new kernel and all reiserfs partitions
> 
> 
> "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Also, I've tried compiling reiserfs support into the kernel 
> also, not 
> > as a module.  And I still have the same problem.
> 
> Try to give us the error message..
> 
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