Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02
According to Johann Spies:
> On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > It also says (because of request_module[block-major-22]) that IDE disk
> > support was not compiled into the kernel, which ofcourse poses a small
> > problem if the root file system is on an IDE disk.
>
> Thanks Mike. That was the problem in the end. Some way or another I
> made the wrong selection there in trying to enable scsi-emulation.
>
> BTW where do I read this information that enabled you to know that
> block-major-22 refers to the IDE-disk?
Well, block major 22 is the major number of the second IDE disk driver.
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
Mike.
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