On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root device set
> to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With newer 2.4 kernel images
> (kernel-image-2.4-386, kernel-image-2.4.21-1-386
> kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386) I can't seem to boot.
>
> I've tried:
> root=/dev/hda1
> root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> root=/dev/discs/disc0/part1
>
> I tried these with and without the devfsd package installed and there
> didn't seem to be a difference.
>
What filesystem is on your root and does the new kernel have built-in
support for it ? I dont think having a module is adequate since the
kernel wont be able to access the filesystem to load the module
Shri
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