Re: kernel complaint

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0800, btrichter@ucdavis.edu wrote:
> | I've tried recompiling the kernel,
>
> This error has nothing to do with SMP.  You have probably done one (or
> more) of the following :
> 
>     o   not included your disk driver in the kernel (you will need
>         both the driver for your IDE controller and your SCSI
>         controller)
>     
>     o   not included support for your root filesystem (probably ext2)
> 
>     o   otherwise misconfigured your kernel 
> 
> The solution is to carefully go through all the options in the
> configuration tool and verify that you have included all the necessary
> drivers.  You can't have your SCSI controller as a module since that
> would require reading the disk to load the module that allows reading
> the disk to load the module... .  Alternatively you can just install
> kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp or kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp and setup
> lilo correctly (RTFM on 'initrd' too).

And, remember that if you use initrd to have initrd-tools installed,
to add the 'initrd=/boot/initrd' (substitute your path to initrd) line
to lilo.conf and rerun lilo, and finally, if you use 'make-kpkg' to
build kernels the debian way with initrd, you have to pass it the
extra flag ('--initrd').

HTH,
Daniel

> 
> -D
> 

-- 
Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University