Ron Farrer (uct@fidalgo.net)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 20:25:50 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 16 Feb 2135, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> Ok...
> I'm just joining this thread, and I've not really been following it, so
> if this has already been asked, just throw a tomato at me...
<joke> I don't think I could throw that far! </joke>
>
> I've seen this one a lot... Usually when I've built a new kernel, and
> tried to move things into modules... The one that causes instant death is
> moving the Filesystem type EXT2 into a module instead of building it into the
> kernel. (?)
SFX: "Doh!", I did do that, shame on me! You all can throw a cow pie at me
:)
>
> Check your .config file and be sure that's not what you did..
I did 'vi .config' and changed it from "CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m" to
"CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y'. Is this the only thing that can't be a module? (before
I spend the next 1-2 hours waiting for it to compile :)
TIA,
Ron
>
> Ric
>
>
> On Sat, 09 Jan
> 1999, Larry Snyder wrote: >Ron Farrer <uct@fidalgo.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Michal's excellent advice snipped...
> >
> >> I moved vmlinux.gz to sda1...
> >
> >Is vmlinux.gz your new kernel or your known working one (backup)?
> >
> >>
> >> Okay, here is how the disk is setup:
> >>
> >> sda1: MSDOS - 5MB
> >> sda5: ext2 - 1.9GB
> >> sda6: swap - 32MB
> >
> >I don't see any problems here, unless sda1 has high-level formatting
> >issues.
> >
> >>
> >> 'boot sda1:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2' -- Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to
> >> mount root fs on 08:02
> >
> >This would be expected as /dev/sda2 doesn't exist.
> >
> >>
> >> 'boot sda1:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda5' -- Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to
> >> mount root fs on 08:05
> >>
> >>
> >> my backup kernel:
> >> 'boot sda5:vmlinux.backup.gz root=/dev/sda5' -- no problems.
> >
> >Is there a copy of your new kernel on sda5?
> >If so, can you 'boot sda5:newkernel root=/dev/sda5'?
> >
> >...just a few thoughts...
> >-ls-
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Ideas??
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
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