I've a desktop system with an external SCSI disk which carries my Debian GNU/Linux V1.3 system. Now, when I want to connect this drive to my portable using an inserted SlimSCSI 1460 card, I've to make an initrd image (on my desktop), which I've read in the PCMCIA HOWTO (dated Oct 9, 1997) since the kernel does not include the PCMCIA drivers. When I run the script pcinitrd to create an initrd image, I get a message that the systty could not be found. Since I suppose that it is not included in Debian, I removed it from the pcinitrd script and gor the initrd image. When I then use Loadlin to boot from the portable using an zImage and the (gzipped) initrd, I get the following messages:
ext2fs warning: mounting unchecked fs VFS: mounted root VFS: cannot open root device 08:02 Kernel panic: VFS:unable to mount root fs on 08:02. Thank you in advance for any help. Pieter
