aic7896 on linux 2.2.19 (440GX chipset)

[Andrew Sharp]

Jeff Busch wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> 
> > >Any ideas?  Any other info I can provide?
> >
> > Does the kernel even probe the adapter?  Please provide any
> > kernel messages that are output during boot.
> 
> The aic7xxx driver does not spit out any messages at all.  Here's what I
> get, after the IDE cdrom and floppy disks are detected:
> 
>    Partition check:
>    request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
>    VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
>    Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

Am I correct in assuming that you do not have any kind of ramdisk
image that the kernel can load the module from?  Otherwise, you are
going to have to build the driver as a part of the kernel, not as a
module, if you want to boot off of a disk behind it!

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