if you don't want to use initrd, make sure you also compile in
IDE (i.e. CONFIG_IDE, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, etc.)
as well as the driver for the IDE chipset. obviously, you would
need to have SCSI compiled in if that's what you're using.
i hope that helps.
On 14 Jun 2005 20:47 EST you wrote:
> I have Debian woody running with kernel 2.2.20.
> I am trying to build 2.4.27 and apart from a kernel build that takes a
> few hours, each time I try to boot it, I get a kernel panic.
>
> Googling suggests that the problem might be as I don't have initrd, that
> the ext2 file system support is not compiled into the kernel, but might
> actually becompiled as a module.
>
> The Questions is what setting do I need to change to make it so?
>
>
> Looking in menuconfig, under file systems, i have
> Second extended Fs (not extensions),
> Ext3,
> /proc and
> /dev/pts
>
> all in kernel.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
>
> Just incase it matters, the hard disk is 775MB from a lappy (1575/16/63).
>
> TIA.
>
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