thanks all, I apprciated the suggestion but seemed to e digging a deeper and
deeper hole, so with a fresh install and then the 2.2.5 rps from redhat
everything is working.
> try to load the script file for Xconfig from redhat site in make
> Xconfig
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-config
> then put off module scsi pci2000 and 2001 ( module not found failed to
> make bzImage)
> erase /lib/modules/ preeferred symlink ( cause not boot correctly
> after upgrade finding modules dependecies freeze)
> et i hope for it will be working fine ( it worked for me )
> gourou
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:15:51 -0500, Timothy Litwiller
> >I just compiled a new kernel that I downloaded, I configured it as best
> >I knew how, but I must have missed something
> >I get this just before it hangs
> >request-modules[ide-disk]: Root fs not mounted
> >hdb: driver not present
> >VFS: cannot open root device 03:41
> >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41
> >I saved my old kernel and put both in lilo.conf so I can boot fine with
> >the 2.2.3-ac4 kernel that I was using.
> >The machine is a PII 266 - with 80 meg ram
> >win98 is on the first hard drive hda1 is the partition that I mount to
> >see it
> >lilo resides on hda
> >linux is on the second drive
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