Hi everybody,

 

I have a strange feeling about what is happening:

 

I get the latest source code from www.kernel.org. (2.6.13.2). I put a standard configuration in .config file. I start xconfig and put every IDE features as module.

Then: make bzImage modules modules_install install

Everything goes well.

 

In the initrd, there are 2 lines: insmod /lib/ide-core.ko

                                               Insmod /lib/ide-disk.ko

 

(I have to put them before libata SCSI support to be sure those modules are loaded before..)

 

I reboot…  kernel panic….(

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

 

Ext2 and ext3 supports are built in the kernel…

 

By reading the configuration documentation, there should be an IDE module…

I found an ide.o in the kernel building tree… but this module seems not to be a .ko and isn’t copied to /lib/modules/ during make install process…

 

Is this a bug or a “special” features of kernel building where ide is no more possible to be built as module ?

 

Best regards,

 

 

Michel MENGIS__________________________

POSEIDON Project Manager

EPFL - DIT - DIT-SB

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL

Tel: (+41) 021 693 2266