Re: Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:55PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>  $ modprobe -c | grep ' block-major-8 '
>  alias block-major-8 sd_mod

Both SCSI support and SCSI disk support are built into the kernel, according
to make menuconfig.  There shouldn't be any modules involved.  (IDE support
is a module, since the only IDE drive is a CD-ROM, but SCSI is internal.)

> My guess is that your kernel does not know what a "scsi disk" is.
> 
> Can you grep for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD in the config for your kernel (if
> you used make-kpkg and installed a kernel-image.deb, it is installed
> as /boot/config-2.4.5)?  It should be set to "y", not "m".

/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5$ grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD .config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y

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