I am having somewhat the same problem mentioned in this trail. The bin 2.6.3 deb works fine (etcept for alsa which is what started the whole thing) When I recompile I cannot get the root file system to come up. I copied over the /boot/config file, ran make config, checked that ext3 is compiles in, I cannot find the msdos meentioed below, where is it in the setup menu?
Is the /boot/ config-2.6.3-1-386 the file that is used to build the bin file? Where is the msdos config option? I ran an sdiff between my compiled configs and the one above, interestingly enough I do not believe the one above would even work Thanks in advance Brian * Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Markus Lindström wrote: > | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > > | >Don't forget to include "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" > | >(CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION) in the kernel's configuration. If you leave > | >it out, then the kernel can't read the partition table and thus can't > | >find the filesystem. > | > | GREAT! That was the missing link! It boots without problems now ;-)! > | Just a silly question though... How could the kernel start initializing > | stuff on the disk if it couldn't read the partition table to begin with? > | I don't know, it just doesn't make any sense to me. > > The IDE controller comes first. The kernel uses the disk controller > drivers it has available to try to detect and begin communicating with > the disk controller. This has to happen before the kernel can get > anything (ie the partition table) from the disk. Next the kernel > reads the partition table and tries to interpret it. If the partition > table support is missing, then at that point the kernel will panic. > After reading the partition table, the kernel proceeds with reading > the filesystem. (if support for the filesystem on that partition is > missing the kernel panics at this point) > > -D > > -- > "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." > --Jim Elliot > > www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
