---------- > From: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fw: Boot Problems > Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 4:03 PM > > > > ---------- > > From: Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 1:21 PM > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ Cook wrote: > > [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] > > : When I reboot the > > : machine from the floppy, a screen of preliminary configuration info is > > : displayed, then I get a kernel panic with the message: VFS: can't mount > > : boot device 8:16. > > > > This is in hex. In decimal it becomes 8, 22, which is sdb6, just as > > you have said you have set it to. > > > > Perhaps you said no to some neccessary config options, which you > > didn't think you'd be needing? > > Both hard drives are SCSI. I compiled SCSI support as loadable modules, > of being hard-coded into the kernel. Might this be a factor? > > > > > I think that you need e. g. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM and > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD set to "y". Perhaps somebody else care to > > comment? > > I'll recompile this evening, paying attention for these parameters. > > Thanks for the suggestions and info. > > Russ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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