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.