If modprobe is complaining: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22
that means that the kernel doesn't know which module handles major device number 22, right? That means that whichever module is supposed to handle major device number 22 hasn't been loaded and hasn't "told" the kernel that it handles device number 22, right? Since block-major-22 is the secondary IDE controller (ide1), does that mean that module ide-mod (or ide-disk or whatever) isn't loaded? What mechanism loads initial modules when booting with initrd? (Is something supposed to load all available modules to get them to register there handled device numbers? Is something supposed to list selected modules to load?) My problem is that I've tried building and installing kernel 2.4.22 on woody, but when I try to boot, I get the errors: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22 mount: /dev2/root is not a valid block device modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22 mount: /dev2/root is not a valid block device modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22 mount: /dev2/root is not a valid block device warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: cannot open dev/console: no such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I build this using the 2.4.22-2 source package and k7-smp kernel configuration from unstable, building on a fairly-pure woody system using make-kpkg. (Earlier, I built a 2.4.18 kernel with a slightly customized configuration, and didn't have this problem.) So in which direction do I look to diagnose and solve this problem? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
