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
From: Jenny Hopkins
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
Been there, done that, got the lumps on the forehead. :o)
Keith ____________ When you boil rice, regard the cooking pot as your own head. Zen Saying
Keith Watson keith.watson@kewill.com wrote:
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
Been there, done that, got the lumps on the forehead. :o)
My favourite one was when I tried to put ELF binary support as a module. I've learnt to read the config help the hard way too ;-)
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