Re: initrd question

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has 
> an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter.  The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 
> kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module.  I added the aic7xxx 
> module line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and recreated the initrd image with 
> 'mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7-1-k7 2.6.7-1-k7'.  I'm using grub as 
> my boot loader so I figured all is well.  Booting the new kernel does 
> not load the module and thus upon trying to mount the root file system 
> produces the following:
> 
> VFS:cannot open root device "sda2"or unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> presumably because the SCSI module has not been loaded yet.  I do not 
> see any of the probing messages my old 2.4.19 kernel outputs which has 
> aic7xxx support compiled in.  Any advice or suggestions on where to look 
> for problems or what I have done wrong?

Is the actual module (.ko file) in /etc/mkinitrd?
Does the kernel give a message when loading the module?

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