Dennis wrote:
>
> I have a machine which has no IDE hard drives. It only has SCSI drives
> hanging off a mylex raid controller. Mylex support doesn't seem to be
> compiled into the standard kernel on the CD. On another machine I build a
> 2.2.16-storm kernel with mylex support compiled in.
>
> I've had trouble using this kernel to perform the install. I made a boot
> disk from /boot/ide1440.raw, replaced its kernel with my new one, reran
> syslinux on the disk and tried booting off it. The kernel starts booting
> up, going through all the device drivers, etc but I get a kernel
> panic. Here are the last few lines of output:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> I have ramdisk, loopback device, MINIX fs support compiled into the
> kernel, but perhaps I'm missing something else I need?
>
> Is there a way I can find out what needs to be compiled into this
> kernel? Is there a simplier way to get Storm Linux installed on this
> machine or am I going about it the right way?
>
> ---
I attach here the config file used by stormix.Rename it to .config
(note the leading dot) and copy it in /usr/src/linux (or where your
kernel
source is).Then in that directory read /Documentation/README.DAC960
Then build the new kernel.
For a bootable kernel using initrd you need as well support for
ext2(vfat as well won't hurt),initial ramdisk support(initrd).
The rootfs.gz is a compressed ext2 filesystem not minix AFAIK.
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