Re: kernel 2.4.19 and inspiron 2600
Most distributions now compile filesystem support as modules. An initrd
image contains those modules; they must be loaded and initialized before
you can mount the root filesystem.
You have two alternatives:
1. Make an initrd image, and configure your boot loader to use it.
2. Compile support for the root filesystem into the kernel instead of as
a module. (This is easier, so it's what I do.)
Kevin
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:27:58 -0700
Arash Bijanzadeh <a.bijanzadeh@linuxiran.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately I have got a Inspiron 2600 Dell laptop. It has a i830
> Intel VGA card with shared memory so i have to use kernel-image 2.4.19
> that supports it. Firstly i compiled it from a fresh source that I have
> got from kernel.org it didn't work complaining that she couldn't mount
> the root ?! After that I installed kernel-2.4.19-386 from testing
> distrib by apt-get. Now it can boot the system, but it complaining that
> the root filesystem is readonly so it can't write the log file and such
> a things, and worst tat that it couldn't run modprobe, so I missed every
> module on it. I think the problem is with initrd.img.
> Can anybody help me please to librate my laptop ?
> Thanks a lot Arash
>
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