Marcus Ancillius Schwertmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've installed Debian on my Laptop (Bellagio Gericom) some > time ago with 2.4.18-bf2.4 and now tried to compile my own > kernel. Easy thing to compile, but not to boot. I did > anything. I used make oldconfig, used to knoppix-2.4.20 > Kernel config used my own settings. All the same problem: > While booting 2.4.20 tries to mount my root file-system (/) > it calls e2fsck and this reports an error: > Unalbe to mount root fs ..... possible no ext2 fs... if it > is try mounting with a different superblock 8192 (if i > remember right). Strange thing is, with the old kernel it > works. cfdisk does report EXT2 (running under the > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel of course). And mounting with different > superblock does not help a thing. It returns the same > error... Ah and EXT2 is of course installed in the kernel > (well as said, i used make oldconfig, too and knoppix does > have ext2 compiled in and my own settings of course too) > I do not know what I could do. I've compiled severel Kernels > with the same FXs. HELP
I had the same problem when I wanted to boot with anything but the Knoppix-kernel installed from the c't-Knoppix CD (I tried my own/precompiled, initrd/plain), until I applied the xfs patch to the sources, then it worked. I don't use xfs, so I don't have any idea why that helped. My root partition (ext3) is in a logical partition beyond cylinder 1024, might that have anything to do with it? BTW, it is Linux 2.4.20 on a Thinkpad T30. Hope this helps Jürgen PS: If you use more precise subjects you will get more and earlier help. -- Jürgen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/ > rot 13 "fr" "se"
