On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> After compiling a new kernel (2.2.12 from kernel.org) on reboot I get an
> error that the root file system can not be found. It looks like it can not
> find anything on my hd not just the root filesystem. When it is booting it
> lists all my ide devices and says something on the line with my hd about
> getting the irq latter loads ppp a couple other things and then kernel
> panic can't find root filesystem.
> I am running MDK 6.0 on a PII system with 1 IDE hd and one UW SCSI on a
> Adaptec 2940UW. I have made sure the root filesystem is listed in lilo,
> turned off scsi support to see if that helped but it did not. I have tried
> turning off ide-2 in the config but that made no difference either. I had
> hi hopes for this kernel because I got no warnings during compile and i
> usually do but I guess thats the way it goes.
>
Did you remember to copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinuz
to /boot??? If not, that's the problem. Also, did you
remember to copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot as
well? (not positive about the path.)
Unfortunately, when compiling, the new kernel doesn't
automatically get moved. If you have an old boot disk, try
booting to that, moving/copying the two files indicated to
the /boot directory, re-running LILO and see if that helps!
John
