Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4
--- dman <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but
> I am having lots
> of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using
> the idepci disks
> (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from
> the hard disk with
> no difficulty.
>
> The difficulty comes in booting a 2.4 kernel. I
> installed
> kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 and kernel-image-2.4.18-386,
> I also installed
> the 2.4.18-bf2.4 image from the woody installer, and
> I also installed
> a kernel I compiled on another machine.
>
> The system has a VIA 8233 ide controller, and the
> hard drive is
> partitioned as :
> hda1 /boot
> hda5 /
> hda6 swap
> hda7 /var
>
> With both the kernel-image packages I get the error
> Kernel Panic : Couldn't mount root fs on device
> <major:minor>
>
> I tried reconfiguring them many times to ensure I
> that the ide-mod and
> ext3 and ext2 modules will be loaded at boot, but
> always got the same
> result.
>
> The 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel can boot from the rescue
> floppy, but when
> booting from the hard disk I get
> Kernel panic : I have no root and I want to
> scream
> This kernel does see the ide bus, though.
>
> With the custom kernel I included the ide and fs
> drivers directly in
> the kernel. That one sees the IDE bus, but yields :
> Kernel Panic : Couldn't find init. Try passing
> an init= parameter.
>
> I tried init=/sbin/init and init=/bin/sh, but still
> received the same
> panic.
>
>
> I've built kernels before, and I've experienced a
> number of similar
> errors, so I have some familiarity with what is
> going on, but this
> time I'm stumped. What might be the problem here?
> My only guess now
> is that 2.4 kernels don't like booting from extended
> partitions, but
> the 2.2 kernel has no problems with it.
>
> TIA!
> -D
<<SNIP>>
As I recall, there were lots of things that needed to
be upgraded to get 2.4.x to run on potato. Adrian Bunk
had created a lot of special packages for this:
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
Did you do this stuff?
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