Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-10 Thread KokHow Teh
:debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: Subject:Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs KokHow Teh wrote: > Hmmm, no, it doesn't boot yet. Attached is my .config. Another problem that > I see when I ran `make-kpkg modules_image` is that

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-10 Thread Wackojacko
KokHow Teh wrote: Hmmm, no, it doesn't boot yet. Attached is my .config. Another problem that I see when I ran `make-kpkg modules_image` is that it doesn't seem to do anything at all: debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# make-kpkg modules_image for module in ; do \

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
you could just try lspci -vv to see if you can identify the module required for ide. if not post to the list. See attached. Thanks & Regards, TEH (See attached file: lspci_output) AFAIK the ICH5 chipset is supported by the piix ide driver so try answering 'y' to this and let me know how

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread KokHow Teh
>> The default kernel configuration has the EXT2 compiled in, EXT3 and >> ATA/ATAPI/SCSI drivers compiled as modules. I turned on EXT3 (used as my >> root fs) so that it is compiled into the kernel and it still doesn't boot. >Ok that's a start, did you run make-kpkg clean before recompiling and

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
> The default kernel configuration has the EXT2 compiled in, EXT3 and ATA/ATAPI/SCSI drivers compiled as modules. I turned on EXT3 (used as my root fs) so that it is compiled into the kernel and it still doesn't boot. Ok that's a start, did you run make-kpkg clean before recompiling and give

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread KokHow Teh
>>>Hi; >>> I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout >>>using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt > > 2.6.8_2 > >>>kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for > > my > >>>2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but ca

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
KokHow Teh wrote: Hi; I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2 kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my 2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread KokHow Teh
>> Hi; >> I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout >> using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2 >> kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my >> 2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but cannot mount

Re: Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
KokHow Teh wrote: Hi; I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2 kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my 2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but cannot m

Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-08 Thread KokHow Teh
Hi; I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2 kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my 2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but cannot mount teh root fs. What