Re: problem booting with 2.1.88

Brian Weiss (fudd@cruzio.com)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:55:52 -0800 (PST)


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i did in fact have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m set...the other was set to be
loaded directly into the kernel, dont know if that was the problem or not.
i will attempt a recompile. one strange thing though, is because this is a
new slack 3.4 system it came running 2.0.30, which seems to run fine.
because of my problems with 2.1.88 ive attempted to compile 2.0.33 which i
am quite familiar with. it seemed to compile ok, but when i try to boot it
i get this.

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

which of course is perfectly normal, BUT... after that it just sits there
and i end up having to kill the power.

i will attach my 2.1.88 config file in case anyone can find something i
missed.

-Brian

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > Partition check:
> > hda: driver not present
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
> Device 03:01 is /dev/hda1. Is that your root partition? If not, use
> redev or a boot command line to tell the kernel the proper device. The
> error message comes from drivers/block/ide.c. You didn't post your
> ..config file, but I'd guess that perhaps you forgot to set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y when configuring your
> kernel. Good luck.
> ___
> Trevor Johnson
>
>
>

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