[Peeweelinux] DOC2000-ready kernel? (Was RE:initrd problem)

Stephen Lee [email protected]
24 Mar 2003 20:23:06 -0800


On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:19, Stephen Lee wrote:

> Yes I do (CONFIG_FAT_FS=y). Actually, I ended up following your
> suggestion and used the 4.2 DFORMAT and in the end it worked and 5.12
> did not. Here again is the kernel error after lilo starts the kernel:
> 
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-3, errno = 2
> VFS: Cannot open root device or 03:06
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
> 
> Is this a sign of missing FS support or a more fundamental problem of
> the IDE driver not working? I wonder if I should try 2.4.19 instead?
> 

I thought of another potential problem. Was I suppose to compile the
kernel under Redhat 6.2?

Stephen