Re: kernel problems -- boot and network
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote:
| >
| > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and
| > network. First some background :
| >
| > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install
| > Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2)
| > then switched to woody. The machine has a 3Com PCMCIA network adapter
| > that uses the 3c575_cb driver. THat is with kernel 2.2.18pre21 that
| > was on my potato disc.
| >
| > I was able to install kernel image 2.4.9-686 and it boots fine with or
| > without devfs. However, it doesn't seem to have the driver for the
| > NIC nor does it have VESA framebuffer support.
| >
| > I compiled my own custom 2.4.9 (and 2.4.8) kernel with devfs mounted
| > at boot time, my NIC driver, VESA framebuffer and initrd support.
| > However, neither of these kernels will boot. The fb stuff works and
| > the NIC is found, but the boot process stops with :
| >
| >
| > Freeing initrd memory: 864k freed
| > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
| > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
| > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
| >
| >
| > I have no FAT partitions. All partitions are ext2 : /dev/hda1 as
| > /boot , /dev/hda2 as nothing (will be win2k later) , /devhda3 as swap
| > and /dev/hda4 as /. What device is 01:00? I don't think it is
| > /dev/hda4. I have also verified that I compiled ext2 support into the
| > kernel.
| >
| >
| > I have kernel 2.4.8 working great on my desktop system with devfs,
| > framebuffer and initrd support. I am at a loss as to what could be
| > the problem.
|
| you lost me too. :-)
:-).
| can't you do things one at a time and see where it fails? start
| with the nic first, if that works then work on the fb.
In my custom kernels the fb works and the NIC is identified (I can see
the output on screen when it panics). The only problem with the
custom kernels is mounting the root fs. The stock kernels work except
for other problems.
| -- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and
| impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91
| in comp.unix.wizards)
Apt description, IMO.
-D
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