Guest krauskopf Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 I'm still using the default kernel. It works great, but I need some V4L related stuff that isn't in there. My linux drive is on a Promise FastTrak 133 raid controller, though I'm not actually using raid. Since I need a new kernel anyway, I grabbed 2.4.20. I don't believe I need any of the extra stuff mandrake has thrown in; correct me if I'm wrong. I added: <*> Support for IDE Raid controllers (EXPERIMENTAL) <*> Support Promise software RAID (Fasttrak) (EXPERIMENTAL) I saw this: "Say Y or M if you have a Promise Fasttrak Raid controller and want linux to use the softwareraid feature of this card. This driver uses /dev/ataraid/dXpY (X and Y numbers) as device names." My current functional LILO uses this: root=/dev/hdc1 Is it instead supposed to use /dev/ataraid/d0p1? is that one of the differences in the mandrake kernel? After compiling and re-lilo'ing, I get a beautiful can't mount root FS kernel panic. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Just a guess, but probably you are missing one step, maybe you where supposed to create an initrd image to preload some 'drivers' which are needed to mount the HD, but which must be loaded *before* the HD can be mounted. Have you tried a search in google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 SEE man mkinitrd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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