Re: [PLUG] new kernel bombs

Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net> · Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:06:27 -0500

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