On Friday 19 November 2004 19:43, Alan Chandler wrote: > > My question is how does the kernel use /dev/hda3 as the root parameter to > find the correct device to mount the root. The conundrum that I don't > understand is that /dev/hda3 does not exist within the context of the > kernel at this point. Forget the question - I found the answer - the kernel decodes it into major and minor device numbers itself. The reason for my failure was that although I had build the filesystem as a "not module", I had forgotten to build the ide chipset and ide disk drivers as "not modules". -- Alan Chandler alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
