Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I've had problems with linux-2.6.17. >> >> When I run this version of Linux I get a kernel panic, >> the first error message being >> Unable to access resume device (/dev/hda7). >> [/dev/hda7 is in fact my swap partition .] >> >> Later I got the error >> mount: could not find filesystem /dev/root . > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> It's quite possible I made a silly error in "make xconfig". >> All other old kernels seem to run perfectly, >> and the entry in grub.conf is the same. >> >> Has anyone had a similar problem? >> > Did you forget to build the IDE and IDE disk drivers? Or if you > built them as a module, did you remember to build an initrd? Thanks very much for the suggestion. I didn't actually forget any of the IDE stuff, but I had some parts of it in modules. Now I've put all the IDE bits into the kernel, there is no longer a panic, and 2.6.17 seems to be running fine. I did incidentally have an initrd running before. But I didn't include BLK_DEV_PIIX, which the documentation suggests might help with the Intel PIIX4 disk controller, although it implies that it is not necessary. So I am not quite sure which change solved the problem. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
