[ltp] getting 2.4.16 to boot on a 600e

[Tom Grydeland]

On 10 Dec 2001, Myles Byrne wrote:

> request_module[ide] : root fs not mounted
> 
> I then installed modular support for all the ide devices supported in
> the kernel (except the RAID ones). And how i get this (i assume its
> better than the previous error but have recompiled twice tweaking a few
> different things and cant get past it)
> 
> request_module[block-major-3] : Root fs not mounted
> Kernel Panic : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07

If you don't have a mounted FS, you cannot read the module you want off
of it.  Catch-22.

> All i need is a quick shove in the right direction... anything at all.

You need to compile in the ide device *into* the kernel -- i.e. not as a
module.

> PS. The old kernel still boots so im sure nothing's corrupted

-- 
//Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>

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