Dan Hatton wrote:
I wasn't in the IRC discussion, so apologies if I'm going over old ground. Are you trying to mount your root filesystem from an IDE drive? If so, please note that kernel-image-2.4.18-686 doesn't have IDE support compiled in. I've decided to blame that for my inability to run this kernel, and it could also be to blame for yours.
kernel-image-2.4.18-bf does have IDE support compiled in, but I can't run that either, because it's too big for Loadlin. If you're using a boot-loader other than Loadlin, you might have more luck.
Dan - thanks, this was the problem. LILO had no problem with this image. To think i've been building kernel after kernel without having a clue I would need IDE support; time to get a book on basic hardware out of the library perhaps. :-) Ta Jen