On Friday 30 March 2001 19:15, you wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas where I might be going wrong here:
>
> Promise ATA-100 PCI card with 2 IBMs attached.
> Base Mandrake kernel 2.2.17 works perfectly with the card...
> boots into /dev/hde1
>
> When I upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x ( I tried 0, 2, and 3), when booting up,
> it gives this error:
>
> request_module[block-major-33]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: Cannot open root device "2101" or 21:01
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:01
>
> Now this baffles me because Im switching from RH6.2 which I had no problems
> loading a 2.4.3 kernel. Common sense tells me it since its kernel
> space...there shouldnt be any difference that this is Mandrake now.
>
> The default kernel boots up fine, but this is an SMP box and I also want to
> run iptables. lilo.conf:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hde1
> read-only
>
> Compiled 2.4.3 with gcc-2.95.2, all other software are proper levels.
> Kernel builds fine, just doesnt boot. Like I said, when this was a RH6.2
> box it loaded a 2.4 kernel fine with the promise card. Thanks for any
> assitance you can provide.
>
> Bob Silva
> bob @bravenet.com
The 2.4 kernel was built with those awful devices in mind--the controllers
that put disks just anywhere. So kernel 2.4 is looking for /dev/hda and it
has relocated /dev/hde there! The result is that grub or lilo is
misdirecting the kernel to a (now nonexistent) /dev/hdex root. The
incompatibility does not stop there--/etc/fstab has all the wrong mount
points since they all point to /dev/hde which is now /dev/hda. With a 2.4
install and running, it seems to work except for
Of course it all works with windows. This hardware was not built with linux
in mind.
Civileme
