on Wed, Jun 05, 2002, Glen Lee Edwards (glen@fcwm.org) wrote: > I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the > 2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on > boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted. As an > experiment, I downloaded the latest stable kernel from kernel.org and > compiled it. It compiled and installed fine, and boots fine, except > that it's missing many of the modules I need, including all of the > network modules I need for my nics. I've gone completely through the > kernel configuration several times. They just aren't there. But > they're included in all the dpkgs I've installed. What am I missing? > Is there another source for modules other than the kernel tar ball? I suspect that it's not a module problem per se but rather the fact that the pre-built kernels use an initial ramdisk (initrd) and you haven't added an "initrd=/initrd.img" parameter to the appropriate line in lilo.conf. IIRC you need to put this parameter on the "image" line like so: image=/vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong but this is what fixed a similar error for me. Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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