RE: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.
try dmesg Jim, that will output the startup messages to your monitor :-)
that will allow you to view all the messages. I'm not familiar with loadlin
at all (i've only ever used lilo b4 so i'll leave loadlin issues to those
that know what they're talking about).
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: jwl@sgi.com [mailto:jwl@sgi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 4:30 AM
To: Debian users; David Pastern
Subject: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.
Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root
device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the
loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also
says root
on /dev/hda6.
Background:
I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom no longer worked. I figured
something had broken the modules but recompiling and depmod and modprobe
didn't seem to fix the problem. lsmod showed everything OK, but it
still didn't work. I'm running a ide-scsi setup since this is a
writer.
So I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18. I got the
kernel-source-2.4.18 via apt-get. Unbziped it. Copied my .config from
2.2.19 to 2.4.18 and did a make oldconfig. I pretty much answered all
the questions as no, which was default. This is a 600 Mhz celeron
system. Plain Jane. Did the make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make
modules_install. Copied the bzImage to the DOS C: drive, modified a dos
script to use loadlin to boot and rebooted.
It looks like maybe there is a dump first thing, but the boot process
rushes by so fast I really can't tell. Anyway somewere down the line,
it fails telling me it can't find a root device on 03:06. The first
time it said something about not finding anything on hda6. The loadlin
command is identical to the one I use for 2.2.19. Is there something
else going on that I'm not aware of? I saw a warning about using
initrd, whatever that is in my browsing the web. Does that have
anything to do with it?
I've got another system that I attempted to compile 2.4.18 on. Similar
setup. Upgraded to woody, apt-get the kernel source. Compiled,
installed, rebooted with loadlin and it gets through spitting out the
......... line, blanks the screen and reboots. I'm not having a lot of
luck with 2.4.18.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Jim.
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