On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:29, Tim Weber wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 14:52, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> > I have created a kernel file with all necessary fs support. However, I
> > am still getting a kernel panic with 'unsupported vfs'. I was reading
> > the manual again and noticed in the eg /boot and / are on the same
> > partition. I have /dev/sda2 as a /boot partition and /dev/sda3 as
> > /,need they reside on the same disk?
>
> They need not. On the contrary, most people prefer having it on a seperate
> partition. If you have them on seperate ones, then of course you can't
> simply copy the provided samples from the manual, but have to think a bit.
>
> 1. You need an entry in your fstab for each partition.
> 2. You have to set root=... to your root partition, but specify your boot
> partition in PALO's configuration (but since your kernel is loading, you have
> managed to do that).
>
> But, if your kernel really tells you the filesystem is "unsupported", then I
> wonder if you maybe just included VFS support as a module? If you did, think
> about it for a moment: Modules are files that get loaded into the kernel
> during runtime. This yields two problems:
>
> 1. If the modules reside on a partition you don't have support for _compiled
> into the kernel_, then of course they can't be loaded at all.
> Chicken-and-egg problem, you see?
> 2. Even if you'd put your modules on a partition with a filesystem with
> support compiled in, they are loaded _after_ all filesystems are mounted.
> That means, they are not available during mount time.
>
> Therefore follow this rule: If you need some partitions permanently (which is
> the case for all partitions like root, boot, usr, var and so on), then
> include support for them into the kernel, not just as modules.
>
> If that wasn't your problem, then maybe you need to reinstall PALO. I must
> admit that I am a GRUB user and have set up a HP box with Gentoo only once,
> but I remember that with LILO you needed to reinstall it into the bootsector
> after you made some changes. If that is the case with PALO too, then you
> should reinstall it. I can't look into the guide at the moment because it
> seems www.gentoo.org is down, you have to try for yourself. But these were
> some suggestions.
>
> Tim
>
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Thanks, I have not included the modules as'm' I used the 'y' option. To
reinstall palo I think it's a case of removing /dev/sda1 and starting
afresh. This time I will manually build the kernel since I found this,
looks useful.
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