On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:34:04 +0100, "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>But you said grub is telling you to supply a valid root= , no?

Yes. That's the part I did not understand.

I compiled my kernel and was pretty sure that it did not work and I got a
kernel panic. I already compiled another kernel for my machine with 2.4.22
under Suse and I had no problems with it. I lloked up the config on this one
and i got most if and just removed what I didn't need, so I was sure that it
should work.
When I got this panic I assumed that it was a problem with GRUB. The kernel
panic told me to provide a valid root= entry so I did that. Actually my first
kernel version contained a configuration error which caused the panic but I
didn't see this right away and included the root=/dev/hdd1 option for booting.
then I reconfigured the kernel and I knew that it should worked but I still
had this root option inthe grub config and this caused the panic afterwards. I
don't understand why because the filesystem is on /dev/hdd1 and therefore a
root=/dev/hdd1 shouldn't cause any problems if it is there, but when I add
this option again then my kernel panics.

>Now you say, that your kernel panics, I'm not sure where you are at the
>moment, because if you get message to secify a correct root=, then we are
>still in grubs part, if you managed to pass that and now we have a kernel
>panic then you are a ste further.

My kernel now runs fine. It seems I had two reasons for panic. The first one
was a wrong kernel configuration and the second one was the root= value. When
I fixed the configuration I still had the second reason but I still fail to
see why this causes a kernel panic.

>a) sis chipset agp support
>b) sis chipset ide support
>
>Be a little more precise where you encounter the problem(kernelpanic) ,
>maybe messages before, and which sis options in kernel you used and what
>else you thought you configured that you think has to do with sis.

I used both of them because my motherboard has sis chips an both.

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