Re: [Trinux-talk] Compiling a Trinux-compatible kernel

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Did the existing kernels work? I have seen that error message on some
Celeron's if you don't pass the amount of RAM to kernel (i.e. mem=256M)
All you should need is to specify and ramdisk and check the initial
ramdisk (initrd) option and you should be all right.

- mdf



> 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,