On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:01:36AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Thanks! I tried reading up on this devfs thing and found something that got > me a little closer: > LILO: linux root=/dev/ide/part5 > resulted in: > VFS: mounted root (cramfs filesystem) > Waiting for 5 sseconds, press ENTER to obtain a shell > modprobe: Can't locate module ext2 <<I know this is *BAD*>> > Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream > > I love the kernel messaging! But not the message. > I suppose at this point I have to figure out what happened to my modules, or > what my kernel thinks I did with my modules. > Question: In order for this kernel to compile, I had to remove the > modversions portion (keep track of modules by kernel version) which I've > never seen before. > Where is is trying to find the modules? > /lib/modules/ instead of /lib/modules/2.4.9/ ?
I am not using devfs on my computer but you should probably install the devfsd package which creates the necessary symlinks on /dev so that software that uses the regular devices under /dev still works correctly. Greetings, Michael
