Re: Trouble booting with new 2.6.22.3 kernel

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 15:58:27 EST



On Aug 21 2007 22:56, Ismail DÃnmez wrote:
>On Tuesday 21 August 2007 22:27:25 you wrote:
>> On 8/21/07, Hex Star <hexstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Ah so the IDE/SATA driver should not be a module (if it is a module
>> > it'll cause this issue)?
>>
>> One more thing, are there any other critical kernel components that
>> won't work as a module and thus prevent boot?
>
>Well also the filesystem module for the root fs ( / ) should not be a module
>as you won't be able mount root at startup hence causing a panic.

- which is why people use initramfs. It's all perfect.

>Perfect is the enemy of good


Jan
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