Do you have scsi in the kernel too?

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Chr H-N wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I am building a small (<16MB) portable
> linux-installation.
> 
> I want this linux-installation to be on an USB-disk
> (it works on ramdisk and NFS), but I can not make it
> work on USB:
> 
> The kernel command line says root=/dev/sda1, 
> but the kernel says: 
> kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on /dev/sda1.
> The partition check displays the IDE drive but not the
> USB - presumably because USB is initialized at a late
> stage in the boot process.
> 
> USB loads correctly and is compiled into the kernel
> (modules are not present before root fs is mounted, so
> modules must be compiled-in).
> 
> I can access the disk if I boot the same installation
> over NFS or in a RAM disk, but I can not mount my root
> file system on the USB disk.
> 
> I do the booting with LOADLIN and an appropriate
> command line.
> 
> Any help to make the USB driver see the disk at init
> time would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards
> Christian Hildebrandt-Nielsen
> 
> 
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