Hello all:

As I have not been able to get an answer to this in my previous post (maybe because it is part of a post with other problems) I'll ask again, this time by itself.

I have a Knoppix HDD (10/05/04) install which has these three LiLO Linux boot options, besides a fourth one for W2K at sda1:

Linux
Linux (2.4)-1
Linux (2.6)-2

The first and the second options boot into kernel 2.4 albeit with an error message regarding devfs. (the reason for another separate post).

The third option does not boot and gives the following error message:
pnp: unable to assign resources to device 01:01.01.
Kernel panic: VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown block(8.33)
From there, only a hard reset gets me out. ;-/

I've been able to trace the problem to the existence of a zero-length initrd.img-2.6.5 file, apparently the reason why it won't boot with the 2.6.5 kernel.

I tried a suggestion posted by FabianX, with this result:

root@Groucho-lnx:~#

root@Groucho-lnx:~# mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5 2.6.5
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.

root@Groucho-lnx:~#

Stumped, I googled "FATAL: Module sd_mod not found." and found a few references in the Gentoo forum relating to module-init-tools-3.0.

Quote:
module-init-tools-3.0_pre6, 7, 8, and 9 are buggy
SOLUTION: downgrade to pre5

This problem is over my head at this moment, so if anyone has any ideas as to how to fix it, I'd be very grateful if they were posted.

Thanks in advance,

CIV