W. Chris Shank on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:25:10 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] new kernel bombs


hmm.. ok, i'll check this then.

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:44:41PM -0600, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>> at this point, RH quirks shouldn't even be a factor, since it's a
>> stock kernel, not RH sources i'm patching and compiling against.
>> 
>> i'll have to double check it initrd is supported, but i doubt i would
>> have gotten as far as i did without it.
> 
> actually, that's about exactly as far as you should have gotten.  i.e.:
> the kernel works and boots up, but barfs when it tries to load the root
> (initrd) filesystem.  you'd get the same error if you specified the
> root filesystem type as a module.  i did that once, putting ext2 and
> ide support as a module,  forgetting the small detail that the module
> resided on an ext2 partition on an ide drive... :)
> 
> --sean



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