On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has > an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 > kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx > module line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and recreated the initrd image with > 'mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7-1-k7 2.6.7-1-k7'. I'm using grub as > my boot loader so I figured all is well. Booting the new kernel does > not load the module and thus upon trying to mount the root file system > produces the following: > > VFS:cannot open root device "sda2"or unknown-block (0,0) > Please append correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > presumably because the SCSI module has not been loaded yet. I do not > see any of the probing messages my old 2.4.19 kernel outputs which has > aic7xxx support compiled in. Any advice or suggestions on where to look > for problems or what I have done wrong?
Is the actual module (.ko file) in /etc/mkinitrd? Does the kernel give a message when loading the module? -- The world's most effective spam filter: ln -sf /dev/full /var/mail/$USER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]