[PLUG] 2.4 kernel problems

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:57:36PM -0500, meuserj wrote:
> I decided to give the new kernel for a test drive.  I configured it,
> compiled it, and booted it and I get a kernel panic because it cant find
> the root partition hda5.  Which is obviously the first logical partition.
> An investigation of the output shows that it isn't seeing the logical
> partitions.  The partition check shows "hda1 hda2 hda3 <>" when it
> normally says "hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >"  What option am I forgetting
> to enable?

The device naming scheme is different in 2.4, you're going to get
something like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/disk0/lun0/part0 or some nuttiness
like that. devfsd makes symlinks from the old device names to the 2.4
devices. Or at least I had trouble with some stuff like that and devfsd
helped me. If you're not using devfs, I'm not sure what to do.


Cheers,
Bill