On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:29:41PM -0600, Jordan Smith wrote: > I ran into this problem myself when compiling a custom kernel. > > Let me take a stab that your root partition is on an IDE drive? > > If that is the case you have to compile all of the IDE block device > support into the kernel instead of as a module.
Not necessarily; that's what initrds are for. > I don't know why, but all of the IDE block device support is > configured to compile as a module in the default kernel config. That's because the default Debian kernels use initrds. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

