* Matthew Sackman <matthew@sackman.co.uk>, 2002-08-04 15:37 -0400: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Andre Berger wrote: > > When booting, the kernel hangs at the cramfs(?), complaining not to > > be able to find the root partition. It seems my kernel wants to use > > an initrd.img that has not been created. What am I doing wrong? > > Ahh yes, the debian default kernels use an initrd image to boot off. For > your own purposes, it's not really necessary to have this, unless you > have unusual hardware requirements. Do a make menuconfig, go into Block > Devices and set "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" to No. Then compile, > install and you should find it's working now. > > Initrd images allow a basic root image filesystem to be loaded off a > disk so that the kernel can load modules etc that enable it to talk to > the hardware that your real root fs is installed on. For some SCSI RAID > setups this is necessary. For general desktop use with IDE disks (or > SCSI) this really isn't necessary. > > Matthew I did that, but the new kernel gives me a panic because it can't find the root filesystem on 03:01. -Andre
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