[H-GEN] Kernel compile

[Byron Ellacott]

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>Just tried that now - didn't make a difference.
>Do I need an initial Ramdisk???

no, you only need an initial ramdisk if you intend to use the ramdisk as 
your root partition, which one presumes you do not.

The error you gave was ``Cannot find device 08:01'' or something similar.  
This means that the kernel tried to map a filesystem onto a block device, 
08:01, and failed, as there was no driver for this device.  This could 
either mean that you have not compiled support for this driver into the 
kernel, or the driver requires some additional parameters to properly detect 
the hardware.

A quick look in dev reveals device 08:01 is /dev/sda1, so that's probably 
right.  You say you've compiled support for the device into the kernel; did 
you install the kernel and run lilo?  You say the device works when the 
driver is loaded as a module.  Are there any options you specify with 
modprobe(8) or insmod(8)?  Are there any options in /etc/conf.modules (or 
equivalent) ?

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Byron ``expert systems are our friends'' Ellacott

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