Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on /dev/hda6.
Background: I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom no longer worked. I figured something had broken the modules but recompiling and depmod and modprobe didn't seem to fix the problem. lsmod showed everything OK, but it still didn't work. I'm running a ide-scsi setup since this is a writer. So I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18. I got the kernel-source-2.4.18 via apt-get. Unbziped it. Copied my .config from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 and did a make oldconfig. I pretty much answered all the questions as no, which was default. This is a 600 Mhz celeron system. Plain Jane. Did the make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. Copied the bzImage to the DOS C: drive, modified a dos script to use loadlin to boot and rebooted. It looks like maybe there is a dump first thing, but the boot process rushes by so fast I really can't tell. Anyway somewere down the line, it fails telling me it can't find a root device on 03:06. The first time it said something about not finding anything on hda6. The loadlin command is identical to the one I use for 2.2.19. Is there something else going on that I'm not aware of? I saw a warning about using initrd, whatever that is in my browsing the web. Does that have anything to do with it? I've got another system that I attempted to compile 2.4.18 on. Similar setup. Upgraded to woody, apt-get the kernel source. Compiled, installed, rebooted with loadlin and it gets through spitting out the ......... line, blanks the screen and reboots. I'm not having a lot of luck with 2.4.18. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]