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. > > -- > Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: > http://www.woa.com.au > Wombat Outdoor Adventures <Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, > Publishing> > > "People without trees are like fish without clean water" > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > Scanned by SCIT E-Mail Gateway http://www.cit.uws.edu.au > -- Vino Fernando Crescini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cit.uws.edu.au/~jcrescin Scanned by SCIT E-Mail Gateway http://www.cit.uws.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html