I'm running into trouble trying to boot using kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing,
Linux version 2.4.18-686-smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sun 2BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffd000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fffd000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 65533 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61437 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 651.492 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1300.88 BogoMIPS Memory: 253840k/262132k available (900k kernel code, 7904k reserved, 250k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.72 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 651.4986 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 100.2304 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1002304, slice: 501152 CPU0<T0:1002304,T1:501152,D:0,S:501152,C:1002304> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf06b0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:04.0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1988 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. Freeing initrd memory: 1988k freed VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem). kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 I have a single SCSI drive (2 partitions, first is swap, second is root) connected via an Adaptec 29160. Here are the relevant bits of my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only initrd=/initrd.img And of course: testserver:~# ls -l /initrd.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 23 10:01 /initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp testserver:~# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2035712 May 23 10:01 /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp All assistance is greatly appreciated. Ken Causey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]