On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:53:23AM -0400, satadru pramanik wrote: > With all the help I've gotten on this list, I've successfully been able > to create kernels that boot on my machine, with one caveat. > > None of the 2.4.21 pre6 kernels that I've managed to compile have been > able to mount my root partition, which is at /dev/hda1 > > I have tried to compile the 2.4.21-pre6 kernel with the .config used for > my 2.4.20 kernel that I am currently running on. (Because for some > reason I can't recompile the 2.4.20 kernel - attempting to recompile > gives me a ide-cd compile failure).
It has to be something in your setup. Do you see this in the 2.4.21-rc6(I hope you mean rc6 and not pre6)? Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/