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RE: [PLUG] Kernel builds, 2.4.7, and VMware GSX?
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I've had this problem. If your boot disk is SCSI, you need to compile the
SCSI driver into the kernel, otherwise, it can't boot. It won't work as a
module. Compiling everything in is partially on the right track. Some
stuff should be left as a module (like smbfs comes to mind right away, or,
any filesystem which is not needed to boot). The ethernet card can be
compiled in, but, it is easier to change cards if you leave it as a module.
Basically the rule is, if you don't need the driver to boot, make it a
module.
Sorry, don't know anything about VMWare.
-brad
--
Have I got a long way to run -- Collective Soul
> When I boot the new 2.4.2 kernel it panics when it looks for /.
> This is an
> all-SCSI system, so I'm guessing that it's an initrd problem, but
> I'm using
> the same root partition and initrd image as for the stock 2.4.2
> kernel from
> RH. The error message is something like "can't find root partition on
> 8.08"..."please specify the root partition" or somesuch. LILO is working
> fine with each of the new kernels.
>
> The 2.4.7 I built booted fine, but I compiled everything in (MEGAraid,
> SCSI, Intel Ethernet, etc.) so there's no modules problem.
>
> Am I on the right track here?
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