On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: > > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and > network. First some background : > > I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install > Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2) > then switched to woody. The machine has a 3Com PCMCIA network adapter > that uses the 3c575_cb driver. THat is with kernel 2.2.18pre21 that > was on my potato disc. > > I was able to install kernel image 2.4.9-686 and it boots fine with or > without devfs. However, it doesn't seem to have the driver for the > NIC nor does it have VESA framebuffer support. > > I compiled my own custom 2.4.9 (and 2.4.8) kernel with devfs mounted > at boot time, my NIC driver, VESA framebuffer and initrd support. > However, neither of these kernels will boot. The fb stuff works and > the NIC is found, but the boot process stops with : > > > Freeing initrd memory: 864k freed > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > > I have no FAT partitions. All partitions are ext2 : /dev/hda1 as > /boot , /dev/hda2 as nothing (will be win2k later) , /devhda3 as swap > and /dev/hda4 as /. What device is 01:00? I don't think it is > /dev/hda4. I have also verified that I compiled ext2 support into the > kernel. > > > I have kernel 2.4.8 working great on my desktop system with devfs, > framebuffer and initrd support. I am at a loss as to what could be > the problem. > you lost me too. :-) can't you do things one at a time and see where it fails? start with the nic first, if that works then work on the fb.
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