Kernel panic with reiserfs as root

[Net Llama!]

On 04/19/03 15:00, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I am trying to rebuild my kernel. I have gotten to the point where I have
> almost everything built in, obviating the need, I think, for initrd.
> The kernel boots but fails mounting the root directory, which is a reiserfs
> file system. I get the kernal panic message.
> 
> As the kernel fails, it tries to load the reiserfs module, then the

your / filesystem must have support for it compiled into the kernel.

> ide-probe module. This is odd because neither of these two modules has been
> compiled and I have build both this items into the kernel.

its not odd at all, its the expected behavior.  how would you expect the 
kernel to load a module to support a filesystem, when it can't read the 
filesystem to load the module?

> BTW, I can easily see me going back to my bad old ways with this stuff. That
> is, making a big kernel and just loading a few modules when really
> necessary. This highly modular 2.4.20 kernel is a pain. Just clicking
> through make xconfig to deselect the numerous modules which are selected
> by default is a big pain.

as opposed to what alternative?  something has to be a default value.

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