Re: Problem with kernel boot with version 2.4.25 or later

[Scott A. Henderson]

If I follow this you removed the initrd support from the "Block Devices" menu option.  The default configuration is to have this "built-in" I am not sure I understand the second part o this referring to IDE and ext3 those from what I can tell are part of the configuration already.  Can you clarify this point. Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:39:54PM -0800, Scott A. Henderson wrote: I have have a problem with booting the kernel 2.4.25 and later on recent hardware I purchased The initial installation is a basic bf24 install no options were selected, I just followed the menus through the system. I do have ext3 fs. My application requires me to compile device drivers so I need to recompile the kernel. I recompiled the kernel with 2.4.18 kernel-source package install the package rebooted and all was well. I then updated to 2.4.25 kernel-source and compiled the deb package and installed with the following. The system will not reboot, it seems to get confused at the step where the ide is detected and the fs type is determined. I get a number of messages about Rieser fs at this point that don't make any sense at all. I have an ext3 fs no reiser. The kernel configuration that I am using is /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 copied to the source directory as .config. So at this point I can boot 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 compiled kernels but nothing later than this in the 2.4.x code. I have one PC that also won't boot 2.4.25 or 2.4.26 kernels. For me the boot hangs on mounting the root filesystem, which happens to be ext3. I also tried installing 2.6.5 and 2.6.6; same problem. My solution was to recompile the kernel with ide and ext3 support compiled in and to remove support for initrd. No problem booting after that. -- Scott Henderson ========================================== Finite Technologies Incorporated 3763 Image Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99504 Phone: 907.337.2860, Fax: 907.333.4482 http://www.finite-tech.com http://www.chillywall.com http://www.virtuale.cc http://www.mphage.com ==========================================