On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, G. M. Bodnar wrote: > Has anyone run into similar problems or gotten this combination to work > on a 2.4.20 kernel? The kernel source isn't vanilla, though. It's a > debian kernel source package with lowlatency and preempt patches (which > shouldn't affect things at boot up.) The kernel boots fine, but panics > when it can't mount the root partition (ext3, hda2) to run /sbin/init. > Support for ext3 is compiled in, and works fine as long as I'm not using > initrd.
hmm. Two things I can think of. Neither are very likley things. You might need to get the kernel to mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 instead of /dev/hda2 (the new devfs naming scheme). The other thing is did you remember to compile in IDE support to the kernel (not a module)? Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
