After spending a couple of hours tweaking my initrd image and Google searching, I discovered that make oldconfig, while presenting me with enough options to lull me into security, was quietly leaving all of my IDE options unset.
Here's the new problem: the root mounts but during the boot I get kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-0000, errno = 8 repeating endlessly until I reboot The same problem was mentioned here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg00032.html but no solution was offered on the list Here it is again: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg00107.html but my ELF, AOUT and MISC BINFMT options are all =y modprobe is in the correct location on hda1 and in the initrd file Anyone? TIA Bob
