[Trinux-talk] Compiling a Trinux-compatible kernel

[J. R. v. B. <jr...@cs...>]

Greetings!

I'm trying to compile a new kernel for use w/ Trinux (I need the DAC960
driver built in), but am having trouble mounting the ram disk as the
root device.  I expect the problem may be w/ the kernel options I chose,
but I haven't been able to find a configuration that works.  I found a
link to the .config used to build Trinix in the list archives
(http://trinux.sourceforge.net/config.html), but the file no longer
exists.  Is the .config available elsewhere?

To give you some background, here's what I've tried:

  * several kernel versions (2.2.[16,17,19], and 2.4.9)
  * all configs include ramdisk support, initrd, minix, ext2, and vfat
  * I've tried booting using loadlin and lilo (both of which work w/ the
kernel images include w/ Trinux)
  * I've tried using rdev to set the root device on the kernel image to
/dev/ram0

Unfortunately, every time I boot using one of the kernels I've compiled,
I get the following message:

   Kernel Panic: can't mount root device on 01:00

At this point, I've tried all of the kernel configs that seem like they
might help, and read through the initrd docs looking for clues.  Any
help would be most appreciated!!  

Best,

-Rob von Behren