Message: 3 Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:41:34 -0300 From: justin domingue <justin.domingue@hotmail.com> Subject: Kernel Compilation Problem To: CRUX mailing list <crux@lists.crux.nu> Message-ID: <COL104-W283791566B523A77AD44EEE8E50@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
I'm starting with CRUX Linux and like it pretty much from what I've seen (especially philosophy).
My problem is that I've never compiled my kernel, so I don't know what to put and my system would not boot because of that (well I think... I get this error : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on block () ). So i wanted to know if I could copy the CD kernel image... Would everything be okay if I was to do that?
Thanks.
There are three things you need to have compiled right into your kernel, i.e. not as modules: 1) The correct driver for the type of hard drive you are using - SATA/PATA will work for both sata and ide drives, the old IDE driver for traditional ide drives only. 2) A driver for the filesystem of your root partition - ext2, ext3, reiserfs or whatever you're using. 3) A driver for the hard drive controller on your motherboard; I think most of these are included by default. You also need to use the correct designation for your root partition in lilo or grub, and in /etc/fstab. For the IDE driver, use hd*, for the new SATA/PATA driver, use sd*. And make full use of kernel help; it's the best computerised help system ever designed. -- Hazel Russman <hazel_russman@yahoo.co.uk>