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Re: root device name w/kernel-image



On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:52:52AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> > 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
> 
> ext2. I would hope that the Debian distributed kernel would have built
> in support for ext2.

It may well expect you to use an initrd for that.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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