If you are booting off an IDE drive w/o initrd, ide-disk modules must be built into the kernel, not as a module.
According to Joel Konkle-Parker, > I'm attempting to build a kernel from the Debian 2.4.22 sources from > Testing on Woody. I've come upon several problems, though, so maybe > someone on this list can help. > > When I boot, I'm getting messages saying "modprobe: cannot find module > block-major-22" followed by a kernel panic. From what I've read, this > can be a symptom of a badly configured initrd. I don't need initrd (I > don't think), so I made a non-initrd kernel image and tried that. On > boot, I got messages saying that VFS couldn't find my root filesystem, > followed by a kernel panic. > > Thinking that maybe initrd is worth it, I added 'ide-disk' to > /etc/mkinitrd/modules (block-major-22 is the IDE disks) and rebuilt the > kernel using make-kpkg. It didn't work though, I got the 'cannot find > module block-major-22' error again. > > What do I have to do to get this working? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Joel Konkle-Parker > Webmaster [Ballsome.com] > > Phone [+1 662-518-1636] > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]