Well it seems that supporting IDE devices isn't the default at 2.4.18. I had to turn them on, as Jerome suggested. Strange system. scsi emulation still doesn't work. It can't find the cdrom driver. Of course it can't you fool. I compiled it into the kernel. What a piece of trash.
Thanks, Jim. Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > > 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 > > I don't think copying your .config from your 2.2.19 is a good way to > start. There have been a lot of changes. The config file for a 2.4.18 > is about three times the size of a 2.2 config file. I would suggest > starting with the .config file that came with kernel-source-2.4.18. > > > 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? > > The stock debian kernel-images are configured to use initrd. If you > compile your own, you don't have to use initrd. > > If you don't use initrd, make sure the .config file has these settings: > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set > CONFIG_IDE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y > CONFIG_[your-root-file-system-module]_FS=y > CONFIG_JBD=y #if your root file system is ext3 > > > > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Jerome > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
