I am in a position where I need to build by own boot disk for installation of serveral machines. It needs AIC7xxx and Intel Pro 100/100 support (to install on to a SCSI machine via NFS). I've compiled the kernel on a development machine (inc'ed RAM disk and ext2fs...of course!). I've used lilo to install the kernel on a floppy, (I took a look at an existing Slakware scsi bootdisk and the Bootdisk Howto for help). The bootdisk (appears to) work fine, it detects both scsi and net cards. Great! However when prompted to insert the root disk, I get a kernel panic from the VFS: Unable to mount root. For the root disk, I am using color.gz. The disk itself is fine, I use it install linux machines using standard Slakware Boot disks. The root disk is a .gz of a file type "Linux filesystem", and I presume must be expaned into the ramdisk upon decompression. All I can think of is that my compiled kernel is not correct, or not working properly, ie not decompressing this image. Any ideas on where I should be looking? ps. no flames for posting this to linux-net please! Hey its got the words net and nfs in it, so it must be relavent somewhere...! tia. =========================== Volia le piste beaver.... le beaver c'est dans le piste.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
