Hazel Russman wrote:
But if the kernel panicked while trying to load the root filesystem, doesn't that indicate that either the SATA/PATA driver or the ext4 driver wasn't compiled in? Debian's kernel is designed to work with an initrd so they compile these things as modules. When I've had this problem in the past, the first thing I always did was to check that I had answered "Y" and not "M" on those two options.
That's right. Assuming SATA, one of these should be set: # # SATA SFF controllers with BMDMA # CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y # CONFIG_SATA_MV is not set # CONFIG_SATA_NV is not set # CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE is not set # CONFIG_SATA_SIL is not set # CONFIG_SATA_SIS is not set # CONFIG_SATA_SVW is not set # CONFIG_SATA_ULI is not set # CONFIG_SATA_VIA is not set # CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE is not set For filesystems, I have: # # File systems # CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS=y # CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y # CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY is not set # CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG is not set -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
