Re: Converting stock 2.6.8 config.gz to a custom .config
Hello
Andrew Malcolmson (<andzy@imap-mail.com>) wrote:
> I'm building a custom 2.6.8 kernel and to avoid making a custom config
> from scratch I copied the config file in /boot to to
> /usr/src/linux/.config. Since I'm not building an initrd I know I
> need to compile in support for my file system so I ran make menuconfig
> and changed the 'M's to '*'s for everything under ISA Support in Bus
> Options and under the Ext3 section in File Systems. However, boot
> this kernel fails with a kernel panic reporting failure to mount the
> root device.
>
> What options am I missing?
You need support for the disk the root partition is on. Probably this is
IDE hard disk support and the driver for your IDE chipset.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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